Comments on: Microsoft challenges website owners to improve their website’s performance

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:21:00 +0000

Thanks for
the warning re office 2013 I still use 2010 myself you
could ask this bloke he’s a programmer http://www.howtogeek.com/

By: Grumpigeek

Grumpigeek — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:39:00 +0000

In reply to Onofrei Iulian.

I don’t use IE much at all. Firefox is my browser of choice and its text is perfectly clear.

However, the blurry text problem affects much more than just IE11.

If I open a document, email or whatever in Office 2013 I am greeted by the same terrible font rendering (Office 2010 is perfectly clear). That is potentially a much worse problem because I have no choice but to use Office. Fortunately, none of the organisations I work with have adopted Office 2013 yet. I dread the day they do.

When most competing products provide good clear text rendering, it just doesn’t make any sense for Microsoft to inflict blurry text on its customers.

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 05:54:00 +0000

In reply to Caleb. Firefox I found the best as well as Comodo dragon, there are many more besides the 4 you mentioned though. Font rendering is bad on IE I agree

By: Caleb

Caleb — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:51:00 +0000

In reply to Buck. Really? Which one's? I have tried Firefox, Chrome & Opera, but found IE11 to be the fastest and most secure among them, although it does give some font rendering problems sometimes.

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:31:00 +0000

In reply to Onofrei Iulian. Yes why are you using IE there are much better browsers available

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:28:00 +0000

In reply to Onofrei Iulian. Yes why are you using IE when there are far better browsers

By: Onofrei Iulian

Onofrei Iulian — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:38:00 +0000

In reply to Grumpigeek. Why are you using IE ?! o.o

By: Grumpigeek

Grumpigeek — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:39:00 +0000

This “challenge” by Microsoft is pathetic.
As a user of IE11, I challenge Microsoft to provide a clear font rendering API instead of the painfully blurry headache inducing text rendering in IE11 (and also Office 2013).