One of the first things I noticed when upgrading to Internet Explorer 7 was how much better the text looked. Further investigation revealed that Microsoft used the ClearType rendering engine, which is included in Windows XP.
If you’d like to experience the same look within Firefox, here’s how to enable ClearType rendering system-wide on Windows [...]
How to improve the look of text in Windows XP
January 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
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Fun with browsers
October 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Early Fun
My first browser was Lynx, back when my Internet connection consisted of dialing into an ISP using a terminal emulator (I still remember the keyboard shortcuts). I still think there’s a lot of beauty in the simplicity of the Internet back then — text-only websites, IRC, BBS, Gopher, newsgroups, etc. Even [...]
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