Wow & fonts question built-in

[Nathan Weil]

Ditto, what's up with the crappy fonts in any web browser?  Why do the
fonts in menu's look great, but in a couple of Apps, like Gnumeric, the
font's look ugly in the cells, stuff like that?

Nathan

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 11:55, Eric D. wrote:
> On my B&W G3/450 OmniWeb b2 (no slower than older versions) is pretty zippy
> & does the _best_ job of rendering good looking pages compared to _any_
> browser on _any_ OS! (for speed it's in league with Opera for YDL 2.1
> (fastest I've seen yet on this machine; though Linux fonts suck & therefore
> the pages don't always look that hot in Opera  :(... no such thing as a
> vector based font, or different sized bitmaps (or am I missing something)).
> 
> on 17/4/02 10:27, Robert Silge at robert.silge@utsouthwestern.edu wrote:
> 
> > You really find OW to be fast? I love the appearance and features, but find
> > it (beta 1 edition) to be by far the slowest at rendering pages. Browsers
> > for OS X are the worst aspect of it right now for me, worse than the finder.
> > Mozilla can be fast, IE is more likely to be able to display plugin info...
> > none of them is close to perfect. Makes me wish I could run Konqueror under
> > DarwinX or something.
> > 
> > 
> >> OmniWeb flies and manages to do multiple-threads with ease. Why can't the
> >> Finder do the same thing? (it's not like the Finder really _does_ much that
> >> they couldn't spend the resources re-writing it (the one thing I will give
> >> XP is that M$ opitimised the GUI for speed (though, damn, it's just as
> >> unstable as Win 98 and equally prone (if not _more_ to corruption)... a
> >> friend's had to do a full reinstall of Win XP Home Edition TWICE now (& they
> >> don't do fancy stuff with their computer... they run the basics) (the
> >> "revert" to a previous state feature is kind of cool though)))
> 
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