Reflections of my thoughts…

Anyway, I’m first time blogging on a product. I’m a hard fan of Apple and Google and I could not resist myself from posting the incremental search feature of Safari. It’s really makes sens. Again new fresh  ideas are coming from Jobs’ magic world. Safari may have many advantages and disadvantages. But one of the coolest thing I’ve ever seen an any desktop or Internet application is Safari’s Search.

If a document or website are so congested with rich text contents,gadgets, adds. Among this, if I do a search what could be the result? The browser may be showing the result highlighted, but from the eye-catching colors and contents, sometimes it’s difficult to find the highlighted search result. Safari does things in a different way. Just see the pic below!

The above file is the screen shot of apple Safari’s Search. It will put a gray light dark overlay and the search result will be visible in it’s position and all the other text will covered behind the transparent layer. The current search result will highlight in the orange color with a small animation. It’s really cool. You should try it…

Update: Fixed many Typos, grammar mistakes, rephrased some sentences. Sorry and thanks for the  pointing out the mistakes through comments.

Now the heat goes up with apple Safari font rendering and IE font rendering. In my previous post I’ve put some links and those guys are already discussed in detail about font rendering.

The inspiration for this post is Jeff Atwood’s post on IE and Safari font rendering difference

As part of my work, I will have to deal with Japanese websites and documents. Long time before, I noticed this glitch in Clear Type fonts while dealing with complex Unicode fonts like Japanese, Chinese etc. At that time there I could not see any other products using it’s own font rendering technologies, other than using built-in clear type option of Windows XP and later.

Safari uses comparatively higher contrast for font rendering. If you see the picture below, you can see the detailed sub-pixel rendernig even for the complex Unicode fonts like this.

Safari Normal View

IE – Normal view

Here it goes 6x zoomed version of these images. Click on Images to get the full sized images

Above Shows Safari Zoomed Image of Screen shot

Above shows IE Zoomed Image of screen shot

Are you doubting, I’ve not enabled clear-type in my machine? You can simply confirm it by checking the English Text just near the Japanese one.

I’ve used http://google.co.jp to analyze the difference.

You can check some interesting post and articles on Sub Pixel rendering

Clear Type (UnSung Hero of Windows)

How Sub-Pixel Font rendering works?

Joel On Software – Sub-pixel rendering and font smoothing