Menu text is not smooth in Internet Explorer 7 (MM2)
Article Applies To:
MenuMachine 2 only
GoLive CS, CS2
Windows only
Article ID: 000143
Category: Browser Issues
Issue
The text in menu items does not have anti-aliasing (font smoothing) applied to it when the menu is viewed in Internet Explorer 7 (final). The text on the rest of the page looks correct.
Solution
This is due to a change that Microsoft made at the last minute to the Cleartype technology in Internet Explorer 7 which smooths text for screen display. Due to problems in their code they have disabled anti-aliasing (font smoothing) when CSS filters are applied to HTML elements.
This Microsoft blog entry from one of the Internet Explorer 7 developers explains the issue in more detail.
The current implementation of MenuMachine uses CSS filters to provide variable opacity support in Internet Explorer which means that MenuMachine 2 menus are affected by this issue.
An update Internet Explorer will be required to correct this problem. The current version of MenuMachine partially addresses this issue for menus that use 100% opacity.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Last updated: February 11, 2009
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