On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)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