Comments on: Font Rendering Differences: Firefox vs. IE vs. Safari

By: Benoit

Benoit — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:49:08 +0000

I bookmark this post for next time I have to explain browser rendering differences. You know, it could be a school example. Very smart mate! I wish Firefox would render better quality with fonts (I prefer Safari’s rendering a lot!).

By: anand

anand — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:40:49 +0000

hi ,
this is anand from hyderabad this forum is very help to me

thanku

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:59:13 +0000

Cris,

Browsershots is ok, but the wait is rediculous. You need to check out the best damn tool I’ve found:
http://www.crossbrowsertesting.com

By: Cris

Cris — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:27:19 +0000

Best tool for this type of issue (that I’ve found) is the site http://browsershots.org/

It allows you to view any page of any site in virtually every browser known to mankind. Very handy, although very frustrating, too, since you get your screenshots back and they all look different!

Still helpful, in my opinion.

By: julie

julie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:18:52 +0000

So, are there any fonts you recommend that do the best job of being rendered similarly in FF and MSIE? At this point I don't care so much which is "best" (some say MSIE renders "better" than FF), I just want to put something in my CSS that will result in the most predictable look across browsers. I trial Arial and Trebuchet MS, but I know there are hundreds of options out there and maybe someone has found a simple workhorse font… Thanks.

By: Junaid

Junaid — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:27:04 +0000

i have applied this css in my test web page , firefox is playing fine but I.E is not playing well…can any one help me!!!! plzzz

By: m

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:16:42 +0000

You forget to change color profiles for pictures from mac. That means almost all browser will render these pictures wrong, and pictures from mac will be darker, for example in FF3 default settings.

So, one innocent windows soul, educated and using FF, may be looking at mac type rendering, but it would look darker and blurier. You should convert them in sRGB or wait 10 years to correct display of all browsers.

By: DemoGeek

DemoGeek — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:34:45 +0000

This is a pain for web developers. How many browsers can one test against? Why not all browsers just stick with one font rendering standard? Even though Safari’s font looks bold I think at times that looks crisp and easy on the readability side.

By: Ve Watkins

Ve Watkins — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:35:44 +0000

I’m new at developing web sites. Been working on http://www.mywcmassage.com and notice a big difference in how the text appears in FireFox vs. IE — FireFox the words seem too sharp, jagged, not smooth. Also the spacing and placement is different.

Is this just accepted? Are there ‘hacks’ or css fixes I could use to override this effect?
Does anyone have any answers?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:41:33 +0000

Safari’s font rendering is the worst IMO, all the text seems bold.