VML Rendering

After loads of pains, I have finally decided to get myself blogging about IE. I always thought I was too lazy to get into blogging but the amount of help I have recently got from bloggers regarding IE pains have made me start this new blog.

The first pain which I will describe is with regards to Vectoir Graphics on IE. I still do not understand why MS does not want to make the life of fellow coders easy. VML is a lost markup language wth almost zero documentation and trust me when I say their documentation sucks big time in MSDN as well. I had to literally spend 2 days to get started with some complex structures on VML and on SVG it hardly took me 3 hours. But this is where the story starts. After that I had to spend almost 5 days to get my entire thing working with VML which I know for sure was 5 days wasted as MS could have easily adopted SVG by now and made our lifes easier. But well enough of MS thrashing (maybe).

Here is the first pain.
I found that when using textpath for rendering texts the text were not appearing properly. The were hardly readable even though I had not scaled them down. I looked on Google and this seemed like a known problem and hence I decided to almost give up. However I decided to give one shot and change my font and walla it worked. First times new roman was my default font and it suked. Then i changed the font to Arial just to give it a trry and to my surprise it improved and then came the idea. Well MS makes their products best suited for their technology as always. Hence I decided to change the font to MS Sans Serif and it looked so wonderful that it almost made me cry with joy. Well I remeber seeing a survey which did say that MS Sans Serif is installed on 99+% browsers so I am happy but probably I would have been happier if it worked as nicely for Times New Roman.