Detect if Windows font rendering is via DirectWrite or GDI
HTML
<div id="outercontainer">
<div id="innercontainer">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div>
</div>
CSS
#outercontainer {
font-size: 50px;
}
#innercontainer {
float: left;
height: 9px;
overflow: auto;
font-size: 33.3333%;
line-height: 3;
}
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function(){
var elem = document.getElementById("innercontainer");
var width = window.getComputedStyle ? window.getComputedStyle(elem,null).getPropertyValue("width") : '36px';
if(width == '36px'){
alert('Font-rendering uses Windows GDI');
}
else {
alert('Font-rendering uses either DirectWrite on Windows or an equivalent technique on Mac/Linux');
}
});