Certain webpages look horrible in mozilla.

[JCool451]

Certain webpages have horrible looking text. They all have rough edges and look very aliased. Does anyone know why certain fonts aren't being anti-aliased? Is there a way I can force mozilla (or whatever does AA) so that these fonts look smooth?

Examples:
www.linux-magazine.com
cone3d.gamedev.net

Go to those, if you would be so kind. Does the text look alright? Maybe even post a screenshot, so that I can be sure?

[MMYoung]

The linux-magazine site looked fine to me. Have you ever tried changing your fonts to something other than the default fonts? I always change mine to Bitstream Vera and it works fine.

Go to Edit --> Prefereces --> Appearance --> Fonts

Then change the Sans and Serif fonts until you get one that looks good.

What DE/WM are you using? (Just wondering)

Later,
MMYoung

[danimal1009]

Just a thought... It might have something to do with the fonts that are set for the different character encodings... Now while I use firefox, it is quite similar to mozilla, so this may apply. I've noticed that most of thecharacter encodings (that you don't use very often) have really ugly default fonts set for for them. This isn't usually a problem Unless I hit that rare site that decares a character coding that I don't run into very often. For example the Greek or Japanese ones. I barely ever stumble onto one of those. But until I fixed the fonts for those they looked ugly.

Another possibility is it's trying to tell for browser to use a common windows font that it doesn't have, so its .reverting to a not so nice looking font that is on your system. Firefox has a checkbox that says "Always use my fonts." When I checked that, it solved almost all of that for me. Maybe Mozilla (which I haven't used since 1.3 or 1.4) has a similar option you could try.

My guess would be it's the second one since Linux Magazine's style sheet tells the browser to use Helvetica, Arial, and sans-serif

[carlc]

Speaking of Mozilla.... Does anyone know why setting the background color of a table cell by, "<td bgcolor="99CCFF>" does not work in Mozilla. It works fine in IE and Opera.

[carlc]

Actually, I meant, <td bgcolor="99CCFF">. I accidently put the quotation mark outside of the tag on my orginal post.

[j79zlr]

1) you shouldn't declare colors in html directly, <td style="background-color:#99ccff;">
2) you are missing the #
3) use valid CSS and all problems go away.

[JCool451]

Originally posted by MMYoung
[B]The linux-magazine site looked fine to me. Have you ever tried changing your fonts to something other than the default fonts? I always change mine to Bitstream Vera and it works fine.

Go to Edit --> Prefereces --> Appearance --> Fonts

Then change the Sans and Serif fonts until you get one that looks good.

What DE/WM are you using? (Just wondering)


I tried that before, the fonts look fine until I get to one that isn't anti-alised by default. Helvetica seems to be messed up. Maybe I'll just download firefox/phoenix/firebird/whatever they're deciding to call it.

Using KDE for my DE. All the other apps work perfectly with AA text.

Edit: Just got firefox up, font still looks crappy. Browser looks great, though. :) I think it's just because of a crappy font, I'll probably have to replace helvetica and a number of others with some nicer fonts.

More Edit: I just looked in openoffice and the gimp, helvetica is not anti-aliased in both. Looks like I'll have to get a similiar font and edit my userContent.css or some sort of X font configuration file, but I don't know what to put. :( Anyone know of a similiar font to helvetica or an anti-aliased helvetica?

[MMYoung]

Originally posted by JCool451
I tried that before, the fonts look fine until I get to one that isn't anti-alised by default. Helvetica seems to be messed up. Maybe I'll just download firefox/phoenix/firebird/whatever they're deciding to call it.

Using KDE for my DE. All the other apps work perfectly with AA text.
Have you also tried adjusting the font size? BTW, helvetica never looked good to me no matter what font size I used, that's why I started using the Bitstream Vera Sans and Sans Serif.

As far as the DE, I was just curious. ;)

Later,
MMYoung

[JCool451]

Yes, helvetica looks very ugly. Is there any way I can make X use a different font whenever helvetica is requested?

[sharth]

(I'm lazy and didn't read the thread)...

install msttcorefonts and ttf-* (where * is some of the fun looking ones)

[rocketpcguy]

post a screenshot, so that I can be sure?

seems fine. use used the firefox GTK2 one, right?

[Hayl]

is your mozilla even compiled with AA support? last time I checked the one they provided precompiled for Linux on the mozilla web page was not compiled with AA support. (this may have changed... i don't know).

did you get your mozilla as a precompiled package from the mozilla web site, or did you compile it yourself, or did you use a package provided by your Linux distribution?

[rocketpcguy]

what's ur distro? and if it comes with gimp-1.x , it will be non-anti-aliased anyway

[XiaoKJ]

no need to switch to firefox -- the problems will always be there.

If you like you can force the sites to always use sans or something you like.