The author of this post gives the impression of being unaware of potential color fringe artifacts that crop up with subpixel rendering. The real design crime is allowing a property like this (or WebKit, for that matter) to ignore the user's operating system's preferred font smoothing method.
imo if you browser accepts any font-smooting setting from a website, this is reason to open a bug report: "does not respect anti-aliasing settings from the operating system"
(Now personally I never noticed, so I never opened a bug report.)
I’ve met enough graphic designers with “better than perfect” 30/20 vision that I am starting to wonder if the color fringing of subpixel anti-aliasing is more visible to them than “normals”.
Blame apple instead for having broken font rendering. Most designers are painfully aware of the blurrier text, and would be happy to remove the fix as soon as the os stops being broken.
Subpixel crap was always a workaround for not having enough pixels to begin with. Now that that logjam is finally broken, this kind of argument is increasingly moot.
Higher resolution displays also mean that the difference between rendering techniques is smaller. It actually made me stop caring about rendering techniques.
