OMFG Apple prices!!!

[Wulfman]

highest market share of all "alternative" browsers.

mfg
wulfman

[az]

Yeah, also the fastest of all browsers with an abstracted animal in their icon, best of all browsers starting with F and fewer bugs than any other of the two most used browsers.

[Mehen]

I've done lots of speed tests between Opera, Safari, IE7, and FF. Opera and Safari are by far faster than the other two, and I'd give a slight edge to Opera. I simply won't use Safari, because of the stupid clear-type (or whatever its called on Safari) that you can't turn off.

[Gurm]

I've done lots of speed tests between Opera, Safari, IE7, and FF. Opera and Safari are by far faster than the other two, and I'd give a slight edge to Opera. I simply won't use Safari, because of the stupid clear-type (or whatever its called on Safari) that you can't turn off.

It's not called "ClearType". It's called "that's how Macs display things, if you don't like it you're not cool and should go back to PC-land you nerd, we're all cool over here in Macland and we like the text that way".

This is of course one of my chief gripes with the Mac. I'm sure there are nice ways to completely customize your display, but they aren't quite as readily available as they are on the PC. I can change everything about the way my XP machine displays ... everything. My Object Desktop subscription gets me software that will let me make icons any shape and size, text any font and layout and rendering method, even make my desktop into the wonder wazoo organ from that Dr. Seuss book if I want.

I don't WANT most of those things, but when I don't like the way a certain part of my system looks, I just CHANGE it. Still trying to figure out how to do that on my PowerBook.

[az]

Here's a good short piece about OS X vs. Windows font rendering.

And I agree, ClearType is easier to read on displays. OSX font rendering looks better, and truer to the print, but it's not as good for extended screen reading.