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I actually found my own answer to my own question.. if anybody besides me actually gave a shit.. here’s the deal… IE7 uses Cleartype rendering engine.
Christopher the Pyro hunt n' pecked this
Aha and if you would like to turn on cleartype for Firefox or any other browser…
It is available to use by default in WinXP. Right click the desktop: Properties> Appearance> Effects
You can enable Cleartype in the second drop-down box.
aJ the Zen Master remarked
And you had not enabled it all this while 
In most cases, people don’t even realise it or are not really very bothered.
And also if you noticed, in the images above, IE still continues to render bold text “bolder” than normal which is how FF and Opera do..
Christopher the Pyro hunt n' pecked this
I’m actually not sure which I prefer… as for the differnces between FF, O and IE.. *sigh* I don’t think they will ever just all follow the rules correctly.
Christine the Lioness pontificated
And Christopher finds that very stressing and disappointing to the entire online community… not just because of our blog, but because that’s what he does for a living every single day– deals with making stuff work in different browsers. But if Christopher can’t even decide which one he likes better, then maybe that’s why no one has made progress in choosing the standard. 
You think that could be why?
Christopher the Pyro remarked
Well other then the fact that the whole clear type thing has been inbedded in windwos for years.. and I never knew.. but yes.. now I’m feeling indecisive.. a very difficult thing for me.
Keith the Director pontificated
I had cleartype enabled from the rip…damn chris you were sleeping
Christopher the Pyro spake, and sayeth
ya.. wow. hrmp. Anybody know what the stats on peopel having it enabled or not enabled are?
Keith the Director pontificated
actuly the question should be does anyone care what the stats are? You should add another poll on the side for firefox users asking about whether or not they had cleartype enabled! 
Christopher the Pyro added
Ya.. I’m curious because then I can design sites accordingly. 
Christine will NEVER let that poll fly.
Christine the Lioness asserted
) He’s right. I wouldn’t.
eric the Lil' Devil scribbled
ok i admit that now that i’ve gotten firefox, it’s like having a mini van then getting in a jet, no comparison good lookin out chris
Jens the Virgin stated
I can’t stand this cleartype image, looks so blurry, hurts my eyes when looking longer than a second at the image
I enable Cleartype in WinXP from time to time (whenever I get a new display or something else graphics related) and I always turn it off because screen becomes blurry
Johann the Virgin uttered
Jens, what hurts your eyes is not the ClearType look, it is the fact that Firefox doen’t has this feature. True or true?
Christopher the Pyro spake, and sayeth
Johann, your right that it might not have been a setting in the old Firefox however it is a windows setting so you can turn it on for all programs…
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