korell: Have you tried using it yourself? Only the image on the site along with a comment someone posted about it elsewhere suggests that it renders fonts very sharply so that it looks like Windows 3.1 text which although it cures the blurry anti-aliasing of small size fonts it seems to give a rather ugly sharp one instead.
Pidgeot: Not yet, no - still on IE8 - but the image tells me it's the closest I'll get to readable text without the IE team making any changes. I *want* the text to be aliased like this anyway and IE8 wasn't always perfect for that either.
korell: I like the IE8 font rendering. If only IE9 allowed turning DirectWrite off so that it works like IE8, but they only do this with compatibility mode. :(
I wonder if there are any other DirectWrite wrappers? I've not managed to find any others as all links seem to point to this one.
Pidgeot: Firefox 4 apparently has a way of fine-tuning their DirectWrite rendering, using the same basic principle as this wrapper - I don't know if it's possible to repurpose it for IE9, but it might be worth a shot. Can't give you a link, I'm afraid, as I'm writing this from my phone, but it should be easy to find.
Well, after further Googling, it isn't ClearType that is the issue (IE8 uses ClearType too and it doesn't give blurry text). What causes the blurry text is the sub-pixel rendering. IE8 uses GDI, IE9 uses DirectWrite sub-pixel rendering.
