Font rendering on the iPad screen is a [pain].
JH: Personally I disagree — we’re testing all of our screen-optimized fonts on both desktop platforms and the iPad, and the iPad’s rendering (especially in-browser rendering) is demonstrably superior to even Safari 4 for Macintosh. But this is a discussion for another day, since all the fonts on the Wired app were rendered on a desktop platform, and provisioned to the app in the form of flat PNG files. The Wired app does not use the iPad’s rendering software at all.
Buried in the flame war over the Wired iPad app (which by itself qualifies it as a success) are these insightful comments by Jonathan Hoefler. I think that publishing a large set of .pngs and calling it an application is ... suboptimal, but it certainly created an opportunity for superior typography.
The comments Oliver made about Scott Dadich are a little bizarre. Why go there? Especially since there's so much good thinking about iPad design on Oliver's site.
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