Using jQuery animate CSS opacity fade and @font-face gives Internet Explorer very ugly font rendering?

Question

I\'m working on a site with HTML/CSS/jQuery that is trying to act like a Flash site. I\'ve had to use @font-face to get the desired font to work. The client wants the fade in of

Answer 1

I had this problem, setting the background-color explicitly on the element fixed the problem.

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