Safari better than Firefox

People are very serious about what browser they use, and I understand why. I end most of my computing life using one browser or another (my current fave is the Intel optimized FireFox variant). Now, I'm just an average Joe, so you can take my thoughts on browsers with a grain of salt, but Zeldman is a web design wizard. He knows of what he eaks.

This is why I found this post titled 'Safari better than Firefox?' so very interesting. Zeldman ends a good deal of time listing all the things that are right with Firefox's engine, but one thing that is very wrong is text rendering. Safari, according to Zeldman and my eyes, renders text much better than Firefox. It is true that Safari is Mac only, so it need not worry about cro platform text rendering, but that doe 't change the fact that text looks very nice in Safari and not so nice in Firefox.