On 4 Mar 2011, at 01:54, John Daggett <jdagg...@mozilla.com> wrote: > …FF also does subpixel positioning while Safari > snaps everything to pixel positions, as Philippe noted.
Briefly, while we're on the subject, I might add that this difference of policy of maths-to-the-pixel applies to a great number of things (not just letter-spacing) — in one of the less dynamic battles in the war for good typography on the web, it might be noted that many (of the hundreds of otherwise quite beautiful) badly-hinted fonts can become quite passable in Firefox when given a text-shadow in the same colour as the font, with offsets at 0 and a range/size of .6 pixels, thereby giving an anti-aliasing compensation for otherwise blocky presentation. The same is sadly not true of Webkit — ditto for cumulative fractionally defined (%, em) metrics (use case: columns) and far more. Ironic considering Webkit has for some time been the de facto standard browser on variable pixel-density devices, where the issue becomes incredibly pertinent. Regards, Barney ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
