cleartype

I'm experiencing something really strange! I have a div that I'm hiding with JS (jQuery). Like this: $('#myDiv').hide(); Then when I make a fadeIn like this: $("#myDiv").fadeIn('slow'); then the text loses ClearType in IE but not in FF. If I go with toggle insted of fadeIn, then it's all fine. What is IE up to and is there any solutions for it because it looks horrible. (I have ClearType on as you maybe understand at this point) A quick search on the subject shows the following: jQuery fadeIn/fadeOut IE cleartype glitch The problem seems to be that the CSS "filter" attribute is not

[Original title: IE 9 text renders very poorly; is there a workaround? ) IE 9 is rendering the text in my application very poorly. The problem is not in my monitor's Clear Type settings, since IE 9 in compatibility mode, Firefox, and Chrome all render text nicely. Here's a side-by-side comparison of how the text is rendered with IE 9, IE 9 in compatibility mode, and Chrome: I tried applying this answer , but it doesn't seem to apply to anything after IE 7. Does anybody know of any workarounds we can apply to our site to fix IE 9's bad text rendering? Edit: I've boiled down the problem page to