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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. ...

First I want to explain that saying RIA I mean Flash, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX. I am not speaking about AJAX,CSS, JavaScript etc. Everyone is talking RIA is the here now , RIA applications are beautiful , RIA applications are fast , you can develop RIA applications very easy . I will prove that : RIA is not here or maybe it is here but nobody care about it. RIA is not beautiful, in meter of fact standard WinForms application or Swing application or QT application can look more beautiful. RIA is fast. Hahaha If you ask me RIA is slower than Java Swing. RIA can be developed very easy – LOL really we will see ? First lets see how beautiful is RIA. I will create a simple Silverlight 3 application. It contains only TextBox, Button and Calendar and uses the default look and feel for Silverlight 3 application. Can you see the fonts? they dont look native. My Windows have clear type enabled and this is not clear type. Check the regular ...