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#GOOGLE CHROME VS INTERNET EXPLORER 9 WINDOWS 7#
These are unmodified screenshots from the latest versions of the browsers running on Windows 7 with ClearType enabled. “Look at the rendering quality, readability, and positioning of the text. The comparison involves Google Chrome 5.0.375.125, Firefox 3.6.8, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Platform Preview 3 Build 1.9.7. Just take a look at the screenshots included below, courtesy of Swanson. This additional precision allows glyphs to start “within” a pixel and not just at their boundaries resulting in more precise and consistent glyph spacing and proportions,” he recalled. The feature takes advantage of DirectWrite, ClearType, and sub-pixel positioning to improve font quality and readability. “During the lead-up to our MIX10 event this spring, I knew that one of the features that Steven Sinofsky and Dean Hachamovitch would show in our day 2 keynote was the hardware-accelerated text quality in IE9. The latest comparison was performed by Mike Swanson, Microsoft Technical Evangelist with the Developer and Platform Evangelism organization, and it involves text rendering. But the Redmond company also delivered on various occasions comparisons between IE9 and competitors in additional testing scenarios such as the JavaScript SunSpider benchmark.


Microsoft has not been shy about applauding the superiority of Internet Explorer 9 to rival browsers, with a focus on the tests made available via the IE Test Center.
