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[cjolley]

Excuse me, is this the new, unobtrusive signature test thread?

Not sure.
What does my sig look like to you?

[az]

Pretty good, except the last two are only placeholders. Are they also chinese? I do have chinese fonts installed, I think, because I can read the first three (?).

[az]

Hmm. Funny, they do work in Safari.

[cjolley]

The sig is simplified not traditional.
Could that be it?

[az]

Flawless in Opera now.

Funny though that Safari could render them and Opera (on the same OS) couldn't - but only the last two.

[cjolley]

Flawless in Opera now.

Funny though that Safari could render them and Opera (on the same OS) couldn't - but only the last two.

What fixed it?

[az]

I don't know, I haven't changed anything - I thought you changed your sig.

I rebooted (got the mac equivalent of a BSOD, still not sure why I get these every few days), now it's fine. Opera for the Mac is unfortunately not very polished. Still the best browser for the best desktop OS IMHO.

[cjolley]

Interesting.
They are easier to read on Windows Safari than Firefox.
Kind of bolded. Something to do with anti aliasing methods I bet.

PS I didn't change anything. They are unicode Chinese Simplified.

PPS And worked fine first try in Opera on Ubuntu Linux

[Nowhere]

Excuse me, is this the new, unobtrusive signature test thread?

Uhmm...well...yeah, I thought I'll get rid of unessencial things
(but I don't remember complaints? )

[az]

Yeah Chuck, there was probably something off in Opera (way to drive home the point I make in my sig ).

Safari brings the Mac's font rendering to Windows - it generally looks smoother and closer to how prints look, but also somewhat more blurry than ClearType. The first few weeks on the mac I found this really disturbing and tiring, now I don't notice the blurriness anymore, but sometimes I still notice how nice and round fonts look