Text in Browsers

I’ve been starting to work a lot on my Harley site, changing everything over to Expression Engine. When the time comes (and I have enough pocket change saved up), I’ll be spending the $150 for the full version, complete with forums. While I do like WordPress, I really love how tightly integrated everything is in EE, including a photo gallery (which I can’t wait to play with), a Wiki, and the forums. It’ll be nice to just tag everything wherever I want it in EE.

While optimizing my site to work with EE, I noticed something between Firefox, and Internet Explorer 7. It would see that IE7 is rendering fonts in a much nicer fashion than Firefox is, which is odd. Check out the example:

The top is IE7, while underneath is Firefox (1.5.0.6). I don’t know if what IE7 is doing is right, but it looks better in my opinion. It’s just a simple Verdana font, very common and on something like 90% of the computers. I wanted a sans-serif font, but something with a little class that was available.

So, who knows. I might play with some different fonts to see if I can get it to look more similar between the two browsers. Naturally, here on my mac, it looks peachy.