I haven't been following the progress of IE10 for Win7. Does anyone know if it will continue to use the same horrid font rendering of IE9 ? I'd love to return to using IE as my regular browser, but I simply can't live with the "smeared on the screen" look of the IE9 font rendering, and can't adjust it to be even close to readable. As a result Firefox became my default browser. Funny thing is that when using IE9 some sites are crisp and sharp... and when I check the source of those pages, sure enough, chromeframe has been enabled.
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elmer
I'm on my very last life.
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felix9
the cat that walked by itself
we dont even know if there will be such a thingy.
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evildictaitor
I'll live forever, or die trying!
As far as I can tell, IE10 uses the same font rendering on the Desktop as IE9 did in Win7.
IE10 in Metro mode uses the same font rendering as the rest of metro, and so you lose ClearType.
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I wish IE10 rendered like IE9... Even on the desktop of Win8 it uses the gray-scale technique rather than proper ClearType.
How it behaves on Win7. Who knows, not had build in yonks.
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elmer
I'm on my very last life.
14 hours ago, daSmirnov wrote
I wish IE10 rendered like IE9...
Ugh! - I wish IE9 rendered like IE8 !!
I can't co-exist with the IE9 ClearType/Sub-Pixel rendering... it is completely unreadable rendering for me, no matter what I do with ClearType adjustments, and no matter what hardware I use (including my rather expensive large IPS monitors).
All other browsers are perfectly clear, and even IE9+ChomeFrame is excellent... but native IE9 simply sucks as far as I'm concerned.
The only way I can live with IE9 is to make ChromeFrame the default rendering engine (a reg key) which rather begs the question of why bother with IE.
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Jsoh
:::Windows 8 Style UI :::
I didn't think IE10 was coming to Windows 7. Regardless, the font rendering on IE10 is totally awful in both metro and on the desktop. It looked like crap on the consumer preview, and it looks like crap on the release preview. Who knows if it will be corrected in the RTM. Fortunately, you can use other browsers on the desktop.
If there is one thing people want, it's certainly not a browser that sacrifices visual quality for better sun spider scores.
-Josh
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elmer
I'm on my very last life.
FWIW: (IE lte 9)
[HKCU\Software\Google\ChromeFrame] IsDefaultRenderer = 1 (DWORD)
With ChromeFrame installed, the Chrome rendering engine is used for all pages, bypassing the IE9 font rending issue.
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Jsoh
:::Windows 8 Style UI :::
@elmer: That's really slick.
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elmer
I'm on my very last life.
Permanently replacing the rendering engine certainly addresses that issue, but it does come with a bunch of limitations... e.g. no print preview, Chrome dev tools (which are not too bad), some IE functions not available. Although you do get the benefit of chromeframe rendering and ie services like RSS... I'm not sure it worth the hassle compared to just using Firefox.
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