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Safari needs some advanced options to fix whatever font smoothing settings Apple has misconfigured by default on my PC: I tried the other three font smoothing options in Safari, but they look even worse. Vista/IE/Firefox look fine because ClearType is properly configured on my PC.
Ever tried pushing your fingers against an LCD screen (not an expensive one!) to see the colors shift and change? Same effect. With the default font settings, the L’s are completely orange, and many other letters have a distracting orange hue.
Safari fonts look absolutely awful on my PC.
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I don’t have that Luxury on Windows – most of the time either I get the right size or the readability, but not both, unless I use a set of heavily optimized fonts.
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In OSX I can comfortably change the font size without sacrificing readability whenever I need to fit a bit more of extra text or code in the screen. Its very hard to find a good middle ground. There is almost no change on the font size at all. Start at Consolas 8, then go to Consolas 9. Consolas for me is the worst offender, since it is my main programming font. A lot of fonts become unreadable at 10 or 11 points (Myriad, Palatino), while others scale very bad or glyphs get deformed (Bitstream Vera, Consolas). My main problem with Cleartype is that once you get out of as selected list of font face/size combinations, rendering is very weak. Apple’s style of font rendering took me about a couple weeks to get used to, but nowadays I prefer it a lot better over Cleartype.
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I got a MacBook Pro in October, and ever since then I use Windows at work and MacOS at home. Or when you enable it with a CRT monitor. It happened with some friends and family when XP was just released. Its a bit similar to how some people found Cleartype fuzzy the first time they saw it. The Fuzzy fonts is a matter of which kind of font rendering approach (Apple’s or Microsoft’s) your eyes are used to. Un-installing Safari and Bonjour was an easy fix. The problem did not exist when I initially installed and didn’t occur until I booted the machine up this morning. Probably just a configuration thing with Bonjour but thank you Apple for installing a separate app I didn’t ask for and screwing things up. It connected to the local network just fine but it decided that the Internet was a separate network connection but that connection would not talk to the local network which prevented net access. Bonjour was installed which for some strange reason prevented my system from connecting to the internet. I ‘discovered’ a new annoyance which prompted me to remove Safari. It’s a different design philosophy but when dropping their app on a platform that uses the other mode of operation, they could try and ‘think different.’ Thank you for pointing out why it looks bad, I didn’t think of the menu bar difference. The ‘global menu’ from my viewpoint is far less efficient method of working but as always YMMV and a lot of people work differently.
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I dislike the Mac method but that’s a whole separate topic. I guess that would have been too similar, though.Ī whole other bowl of worms so to speak.
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Personally I think it could look better too but when you’re so limited I guess there’s not much room for choice.īack when Vista was still called Longhorn and there was so much speculation in the air about how much it was going to “borrow” from Mac OS this time around, I was so hoping Microsoft would do the global menu bar thing. Obviously this isn’t possible on Windows so they had to do the best they could. The app’s buttons and url widgets are flush with the title bar above and bookmarks bar below (or tab bar if you’ve turned off the bookmarks bar).
Back to your point, since the menu bar is not part of the app window, there is none of that annoying grey space on the OS X version. It takes some getting used to but overall it makes things consistent. In OS X, the menu bar is not part of any application it’s always at the top of the screen, separate from the application. This is mostly due to a major difference in design philosophy between OS X and Windows. Honestly, sticking with the typical window theme of having the title bar being just that, a different bar looks a lot better. You’re just left with the huge gray spaces that feel empty. The biggest issue is the centred title with the right justified file menu.