I have been reluctant to spend much time learning Silverlight due to what I think is one of its main shortcomings: font rendering. Fonts look absolutely horrible especially at small font sizes and I think it makes it completely useless for any serious (business) application. I have noticed developers tend to cover this up by using light font colours on a dark background.
I have seen many complaints on forums and mentioned this to a Microsoft employee. He replied this is common complaint which will be addressed in Silverlight 3. Others report that although ClearType fonts are supported in SL 3 the font problem is more fundamental and not likely to be resolved any time soon.
Now that SL 3 has been released, has anyone doing active SL development noticed a marked improvement over previous versions?
Its a huge improvement over Silverlight 2. Text that was previously borderline unreadable looks great. The ClearType rendering works on in all browsers/OSes so this is an across the board improvement.