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Mac Users' Internet Experience to Retain Same Fonts
thefickler sent in this article that opens, "Mac users will continue to see the Internet as it was intended, thanks to the renewal of a font licensing agreement between Microsoft and Apple. At TypeCon2007 Microsoft and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement, giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft Windows core fonts. Back in 1996 Microsoft started the "Core fonts for the Web" initiative. The idea of this initiative was to create a a standard pack of fonts that would be present on all or most computers, allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers. While the project was terminated in 2002, some of the fonts defined as core fonts for the web have gone on to become known as "web safe fonts," and are therefore widely used by Internet developers."
Fucking agreed. Going back to Windows with its shitty font renderings is horrible on my eyes. The aliasing and ligatures are all wrong!
fonts? Most of the time crappy CSS layouts makes the font face pointless anyway. Use fixed width for everything.
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Where are these 300DPI displays you speak of? I do a quick check, and I don't see them on sale. Currently, far an away the most popular LCDs are 19", both 4:3 and 16:10, 22" 16:10 and 24" 16:10. In all cases you are talking a DPI less than 100. The 24s aren't cheap either, these are "high end" monitors with good panels in them. In fact, when I look at a site like Newegg, I don't see any displays for sale that are in the DPI range you talk about AT ALL. If they aren't available even on the tech sites, they aren't coming to the average home any time soon. The highest DPI LCDs I see anywhere on the consumer market are for laptops, and none of them break 150DPI.
This is all an aside from the problems we run in to driving high resolution displays. 1920x1200@60Hz is right at the limit for single link DVI and by extension current HDMI connections. Then of course there's the issue of the GPU power needed to do 3D at higher resolutions, an 8800, the biggest baddest, hottest, most expensive toy on the block is about maxed for 1920x1200 and for the 30" 2560x1600 beasts you generally have to whack 2 of them together to drive it well in 3D which is expensive, consumes a shitload of power, and is only supported on a limited number of platforms.
So unless you can show me where these 300DPI displays are, I'm calling BS. Currently I see a big deal being made out of just hitting full HD resolution (which requires 1920x1080 on a 16:9 display), and little chatter about going past that.