Comments on: How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript

By: zoltan

zoltan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:37:47 +0000

Paul Irish told me about an Active X control that can do just that, but we discovered it wasn’t on every IE install. I don’t believe there is any way to detect a specific font-smoothing technology in the other browsers. :-/

By: Matt Stow

Matt Stow — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:20:59 +0000

It would be good if this could detect whether ClearType was being used as opposed to just standard font smoothing too.

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By: zoltan

zoltan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:26:50 +0000

@Agos: That’s intreresting. That would imply that either the iphone’s browser doesn’t support canvas, or that that fonts in canvas don’t render the same as in plain HTML. I’ll have to see if I can test on a friend’s iphone and update the routine. Thanks for letting me know – I’ll let you know when there is a fix.

By: Agos

Agos — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:16:11 +0000

Testing it on the iPhone yelds negative results, but AFAIK subpixel AA is always active on the iPhone.

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By: zoltan

zoltan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:41:01 +0000

Ace: it is for these reasons why we are promoting the Type Rendering Project! We hope to make this into a forum and discussion on how to make fonts look good on the web now. Hopefully this article is a good start in that direction.

By: Ace

Ace — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:44:26 +0000

Thanks for doing the research on this issue, zoltan. This’ll bring us closer to unifying the way fonts are displayed across browsers and operating systems. These inconsistencies are the main reason why I don’t to make extensive use of custom fonts on websites. I made an attempt a while ago, but I was heavily disappointed after comparing the rendering between Windows and Mac, and I’m not even mentioning Linux (all using the same browser, Firefox).

By: zoltan

zoltan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:11:43 +0000

John: Thanks Dude! I updated the zip file to include the fonts … something I missed during my testing. Many thanks.