Mac font rendering on Windows

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Published on 2008-09-12T06:16:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 0:33 UTC
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Hi,

I love the way Mac OS beautifully renders fonts (not just browsers). I was wondering if we could somehow get the same rendering in browsers running on Windows?

Someone recommended sIFR but I guess that's useful when I need to use non-standard fonts?

-- Swap

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