Anti aliasing on <p>text</p> - stylesheet?

[bissatch]

Hi,

I want to display text on screen with anti aliasing to make it appear
smoother. Is it possible to do this in browsers by perhaps applying a
style to it or is it entirely up the the browser? Cheers

Burnsy

[Steve Pugh]

bi******@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

I want to display text on screen with anti aliasing to make it appear
smoother. Is it possible to do this in browsers by perhaps applying a
style to it or is it entirely up the the browser? Cheers

Neither. It's usually an operating system setting.

Steve

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[Safalra]

Steve Pugh wrote:

bi******@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

I want to display text on screen with anti aliasing to make it appearsmoother. Is it possible to do this in browsers by perhaps applying astyle to it or is it entirely up the the browser? Cheers

Neither. It's usually an operating system setting.

I think it might be a combination - the OS must support anti-aliasing,
but the browser must request it. I say this because on my Windows box,
IE anti-aliased all text, but Mozilla Firefox only anti-aliases text
above 14pt. Of course there could be something else strange going on,
in which case ignore everything I've said...

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[Alex Meier]

us****@safalra.com says...

Neither. It's usually an operating system setting.

I think it might be a combination - the OS must support anti-aliasing,
but the browser must request it. I say this because on my Windows box,
IE anti-aliased all text, but Mozilla Firefox only anti-aliases text
above 14pt. Of course there could be something else strange going on,
in which case ignore everything I've said...

No.
The reason why Firefox doesn't antialias small font sizes is intended
functionality (improvement of readability for small fonts), coded into
Firefox. You can't change it.

There is no way via HTML you can force a browser to antialias text or
not. Period.

Alex

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[Safalra]

Alex Meier wrote:

us****@safalra.com says...

Neither. It's usually an operating system setting.
I think it might be a combination - the OS must support anti-aliasing, but the browser must request it. I say this because on my Windows box, IE anti-aliased all text, but Mozilla Firefox only anti-aliases text above 14pt. Of course there could be something else strange going on, in which case ignore everything I've said...

The reason why Firefox doesn't antialias small font sizes is intended

functionality (improvement of readability for small fonts), coded into Firefox.
Hmm... I've always found anti-aliased text more readable at small
sizes.
You can't change it.
Yes you can - it's open-source :)
There is no way via HTML you can force a browser to antialias text or not. Period.

I didn't mean that it could be done though HTML - I meant that it
wasn't just dependent on the Operating System, but the browser as well.

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[Alex Meier]

us****@safalra.com says...

Hmm... I've always found anti-aliased text more readable at small
sizes.

Seems this is a matter of personal taste ;)

You can't change it.

Yes you can - it's open-source :)

Ok, you're right! This I have to agree...

There is no way via HTML you can force a browser to antialias text or
not. Period.

I didn't mean that it could be done though HTML - I meant that it
wasn't just dependent on the Operating System, but the browser as well.

I get the point. I admit I was sort of flying over you posting and
misinterpreted you a little bit.
Yes, it is both a feature of the OS *and* the use of this feature by the
browser.

But the OP was - IMHO - the question, whether it could be possible for a
stylesheet to change the antialiasing behaviour.
The answer to this is still "no".

Cheers,
Alex

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[Safalra]

Alex Meier wrote:

us****@safalra.com says...

Alex Meier wrote:

There is no way via HTML you can force a browser to antialias text or not. Period.
I didn't mean that it could be done though HTML - I meant that it
wasn't just dependent on the Operating System, but the browser as

well.
[snip]

But the OP was - IMHO - the question, whether it could be possible for a stylesheet to change the antialiasing behaviour.
The answer to this is still "no".

Of course. If the original poster is still reading, I apologise for any
confusion caused.

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