On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
I too was surprised at how many users are A) on XP with ClearType off, which is the default there or B) turn font smoothing off intentionally.
I have no comment on any of the rest of this, but with my Firefox dev hat on, we've been through several cycles of being told in no uncertain terms that a vocal minority of our userbase _hates_ what ClearType does to the visual appearance of text, and will stop at nothing to suppress it. (That the vast majority of fonts do not have the extra hinting required to look good with ClearType off matters not to them; these people generally also wish to force all websites to use their preferred fonts. Possibly I should say preferred *font*.)
zw