Remove -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased

[dchest]

[edited]

[lkraav]

For those that don't know, like me, what is the problem with this rule?

[dchest]

@lkraav It makes fonts look different that what users normally see, as it disables subpixel rendering. It doesn't make sense to do this in a framework such as Pure, which is intended to be a "foundation".

Here's a screenshot:

On the left you see a button without -webkit-font-smoothing, on the right is what Pure currently does. You may argue that you like how the right button more, and I'm okay with this opinion, but this button is overriding the user preference (default on LCD displays with most operating systems) for subpixel rendering. It doesn't belong in Pure, it must be a site-specific thing.

Also, since Firefox doesn't implement -webkit-font-smoothing, buttons looks different in FF and Chrome/Safari.

[omeid]

I think it's pretty reasonable to remove this.
Anitialising fundamentally sucks anyways.

[dchest]

More on this:

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/

I suspect this CSS property was introduced to fix rendering on dark Dashboard widgets in OS X or something (can't read Apple's rdar). Unfortunately, web designers somehow learned about it :-(

[lkraav]

Consider me convinced

[ericf]

@dchest sounds like the right thing to do. Next time could you put something more like your comment as the description, k thanks!

[dchest]

@ericf sure, sorry about that, I removed the original "description".