Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Jun 2007 20:12 UTC
Apple's first Windows beta release of Safari had some nasty bugs, most importantly one where bold text wouldn't render on non-English versions of Windows. Since the 3.0.2 release has 'fixes for text display, non-English systems', this bug might by fixed. In addition, Security Update 2007-006 for Mac OS 10.3.9 and Mac OS 10.4.9 and later has been released. The update addresses two vulnerabilities in WebKit, one of which could lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
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RE[3]: Working great now but...
by elmimmo on Sun 24th Jun 2007 00:41
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> The reason as there font rendering works "ok" in MacOS X are the fonts installed in the system designed for this system, but I don't think the result is quite up to the same final quality working on Windows
They work as OK (or as bad) in Mac OS X as they do in Safari for Windows. Windows renderer prefers sharpness by distorting fonts so as to make them stick to absolute pixel coordinates, at the expense of their original shape; Mac OS X (and Safari's) renderer prefers honoring the typeface original shape at the expense of having to antialias vertical and horizontal lines.
Fonts look the same in OS X as they look in Safari. I guess it is a matter of preference/getting used to.
RE[4]: Working great now but...
by JrezIN on Sun 24th Jun 2007 13:40
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Fonts look the same in OS X as they look in Safari. I guess it is a matter of preference/getting used to.
Same fonts look the same, the thing is... MacOS X has original fonts optimized for its rendering engine and Windows has (newer) fonts optimized for its engine (and a engine that works well with older not designed to cleartype). One won't work 'well as' using the other fonts...
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I just hope Apple enable ClearType there... It works much better (IMHO)... (The reason as there font rendering works "ok" in MacOS X are the fonts installed in the system designed for this system, but I don't think the result is quite up to the same final quality working on Windows).
...and yes, it's blurrier than CT... =] (may respect better some shapes, but I'd prefer easier reading)
...in other subject, the app still have some problems with 100% consuption on several sites, but it's MUCH better than 3.0.0 was! I hope they continue to improve like than, solve some plugins' performance problems and somehow add sessions to help saving your browsing with crashes and personal preferences.)