{"id":1510,"date":"2009-05-03T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2011-03-27T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T08:09:58","slug":"anti-aliasing-auch-im-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/2009\/05\/03\/anti-aliasing-auch-im-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-aliasing in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
Attention!<\/h5>\r\n

This post is rather old. If you’re looking for information on the current Firefox 4<\/strong> font smoothing problem, you should rather look here: Font smoothing in Firefox 4<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<\/ins>\r\n\r\n

Since version 7, I believe, the Internet Explorer has had this great font anti-aliasing feature. That is the fonts simply look prettier, smoother and less pixely there. I’ve always liked that; in fact, I was amazed, for it was the first time that the Internet Explorer seemed to have something over my Firefox. But I thought: “Well, in the next version at the latest, Firefox will of course be able to do this as well.” But I’ve been having a long wait for that…<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"Enable<\/a>
Enable ClearType<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n

Yesterday I had the idea to delve into the matter again and found out, that the anti-aliasing effect is not directly an IE, but a general Windows feature, which is simply enabled by default for IE since version 7. It is called “ClearType” and can be enabled windows-wide at your desire. Here’s how it’s done:
\r\nRight click Desktop → Properties → Appearance → Effects
\r\nUnder “Use following method to smooth edges…”, choose “ClearType”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

As a result, fonts will be smoothened in all applications, including Firefox. Actually I’d rather be able to activate the feature for Firefox only<\/em> while leaving it disabled for all other applications, but I couldn’t find a solution for that yet. It seems that there was a patch for Firefox 2 which fulfilled exactly this task, but it doesn’t work with Firefox 3. The download site is dead by now, so there’s probably not going to be a new version of it in the future. :cry:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attention! This post is rather old. If you’re looking for information on the current Firefox 4 font smoothing problem, you should rather look here: Font smoothing in Firefox 4. Since version 7, I believe, the Internet Explorer has had this great font anti-aliasing feature. That is the fonts simply look prettier, smoother and less pixely there. I’ve […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[325,327,53,137,326,324,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}