“Safari now uses Windows standard fonts, but you can choose to use Apple’s crisp anti-aliased fonts if you prefer.”

Now, if you didn’t know any better, wouldn’t you take that to mean that Windows’ fonts aren’t anti-aliased? And that this was a special way in which only Safari could improve your life? Of course, you and I do know better, but… well, the libel laws of this country restrain me from further comment.

The bit that particularly gets me is the way they emphasise the word “crisp”, as if to suggest that, next to Apple’s font rendering routines, Windows type just looks like a smeary blur. For the record, here’s a close-up on that fell phrase with standard Windows font smoothing:

And here it is again, this time using Apple’s specially imported ne plus crispior type engine:

You have to admire their chutzpah, really. What are they going to come up with next? “Buy a Mac because it’s great for games”? Oh, wait…