436005 - Text and picture rendering like Mac and IE 7 on windows

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics, enhancement)

Description

[dark_yux]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/seamonkey-2.0a1pre.cs.win32.zip

The text and picture rendering on Mac Safari and Firefox (Mac) is excellent. The pages look like a printed book. The rendering on Windows editions of SeaMonkey and Firefox should look the same way. Internet Explorer 7 has upgraded their text rendering to compete.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Firefox uses Windows' default text rendering. If you want IE7's text rendering (called ClearType) to be applied to the whole system, see http://samanathon.com/love-cleartype-in-ie7-use-it-in-firefox-and-everywhere-else/

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

--> GFX Thebes (probably)

Comment 3

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Sounds like we can close this out as 'wont fix'. Dark if you feel it should remain open please post a reason. I don't think a request of making windows look more like mac when it comes to text rendering is reasonable. Each os approaches text rendering differently.