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The idea is to compare the current RIA frameworks like Flex(Flash), Silverlight and JavaFX and see what are the fonts that they produces. We are in 21th century most of the people have laptops and use TFT screens and windows is the most usedOS this days, so most of the people use clear type font rendering. Lets see how each technology uses clear type : For me the best fonts with clear type enabled are fonts in WinForms and native windows applications. I’ve found very interesting comparison here: http://www.scottlogic.co.uk/blog/wpf/2009/07/silverlight-v3-cleartype-font-rendering-a-comparison/ I will use some of the screenshots from there. WinForms (ClearType OFF) You can see that WinForms with ClearType off are still best for CRT screens but not good for TFT screens. WinForms (ClearType On) The WinForms + ClearType is the best from microsoft for now. ...

JavaFX 1.2 is here it came with a lot of futures ( http://javafx.com/docs/articles/javafx1-2.jsp ) For me the most important "changes" are : Platform Support Support is now provided for two additional OS platforms: Solaris Beta: OpenSolaris 2009.06 Linux Beta: Ubuntu 8.04 LTE Media Real-time streaming protocol (RTSP) support is new. You can read more about RTSP on the RTSP wiki . var url: String = "rtsp://sqe-macpro-2.sfbay.sun.com/sample_300kbit.mov"; Media supports two more OS platforms, OpenSolaris and Ubuntu Linux. Both platforms use the open source multimedia framework GStreamer . Media has better support for video scrubbing. UI Control Components Package affected: javafx.scene.control The new javafx.scene.control package now includes the following classes for creating UI controls. Behavior Button ButtonBase CheckBox Control Hyperlink Keystroke Label Labeled ListView ProgressBar ProgressIndicator Radio...