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IE9's Text Rendering Images PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dustin   
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 05:29

Microsoft is pulling all the punches with its newest Internet browser, Internet Explorer 9. Look at the images at the MSDN site, and how IE9 renders the text so it is actually readable. Firefox isn't bad, but it is still a very noticeable difference. Last place definitely goes to Apples Safari, I can barely read that text!

Recently, I’ve been spending time on an upcoming project for my good friends at MIX Online (just down the hall from me in building 24). The project involves working with the HTML5 canvas element, and I’ve been performing most of my tests with IE9 Platform Preview 3. This weekend, I decided to run some of my test files (HTML and JavaScript) with the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Honestly, I didn’t expect to find many differences. So imagine my surprise when I saw these results (in alphabetical order):



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