On 2007/04/23 08:19 (GMT+0100) Simon White apparently typed: > This is a big issue for those using CRT (regular monitors, not LCDs). > ClearType is only any use on LCD panels since it uses "subpixel" rendering, > which doesn't exist on CRTs.
Subpixel rendering applies only to LCDs, but that's completely independent of applicability of ClearType. You can enable ClearType even when the OS has no idea what type of monitor you have, as when a display has broken or unimplemented DDC. > So, in IE7 on a CRT monitor you have to switch it off, because otherwise the > text is (in my opinion) harder to read, and looks pretty awful. I think it looks very much worse disabled than enabled on all my functional CRTs. See the screenshot examples in my upthread reply to the thread starter. > Making IE7 have ClearType on by default therefore both annoys people with > CRTs (unless their eyesight isn't great, in which case it may appear better > to them) and makes people think IE7 is better because it has font smoothing, > when in fact any application can have it. This only proves that ClearType can work on any display. -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
