font differences in FF vs IE

[dbarasuk]

Hello. I am using IE8 and FF 3.4 beta version to test my pages.

If i assign "Trebuchet MS" to the page fonts, the appearance is quite different for the two browsers. It's more beautiful in IE and almost ugly to look at in FF. How can I solve this ? Or what might be the cause of the differences?

Sincerely yours

[swa66]

FF 3.4 beta

That's a strange version to be stuck on.

Just how do you assign the font ?

As far as CSS is concerned, the font-family should be a list of fonts ending in a generic font.

How a font renders is a browser and/or OS thing. Even having any font is a gamble.

What's nice and ugly also depends on client side settings such as anti-aliasing.

[dbarasuk]

How can one change the anti-aliasing on the client side? I suspect its the cause of that problem

[choster]

By definition, you cannot change client-side settings, and should not be able to— my machine is my machine, not some web designer's :-).

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. I seriously dislike the way Windows XP anti-aliasing renders in my display; it makes characters look splotchy and unreadable.