fonts - Forcing anti-aliasing using css: Is this a myth?

Question

Recently a client has complained about the appearance of a system font in IE6. Basically th issue is that IE6 doesn't support font-smoothing/anti-aliasing (I know you can turn it on in an OS setting or something). But someone threw out this gem:

"You can force font anti-alias in css by using pt instead of px."

I did a quick POC in various browsers and saw no difference. I found one reference to it online, last post on this forum:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/css/3280638.htm

This sounds like the equivalent of a web developer urban myth, my feeling is it's BS. Has anyone ever encountered it?

Answer 1

Oh yes you can:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
font-smoothing: antialiased;

Source for Firefox, thanks Justin for the heads up.