How does Umbraco look in IE9 RC?

Feb 12 2011

Sexy!

Seriously, the IE9 font rendering is just beautiful, best of the current browser set.

Umbraco on IE9

Compare that to Chrome, notice the lack of antialiasing on the header text.

Umbracon on Chrome

Posted by: Aaron Powell
Last revised: 12 Feb, 2011 12:21 PM History

Comments

paul

12 Feb, 2011 12:21 PM

Chromes AA is very odd to say the least. Try disabling ClearType and it actually starts antialaising the text. Other tricks include transparent dropshadow on large text to trigger AA

Jon

12 Feb, 2011 04:59 PM

There's hope for IE yet. This has been a pet peeve of mine with font-face. It's not like you can instruct your visitors to disable ClearType.

Jan

13 Feb, 2011 05:22 PM

Hmmm...how is the display of one of the Umbraco skins unique for what Umbraco looks like? I don't get it I must admit. It's cool that the skin is looking good in IE9 and all...But it could just as easily have been served by Drupal or even statis pages, right? :-)

When I saw the title of this post I thought there was something with the display of the Umbraco back office that was way more cool in IE9 than in other browsers...

/Jan