HTML font anti-alias issue (Windows)

I'm using an HTML component in my AIR app to display a bunch of content. I recently changed over to using the HTML component instead of other Flex components like Text and TextArea.
The problem I have is that text in the HTML component is always displaying anti-aliased on Windows, whereas it didn't before when I was using other Flex components. Is there a way I can prevent the HTML component from rendering fonts with anti-aliasing? I've tried several WebKit CSS properties, but none of them have seemed to work (including text-smooth and text-shadow). I also didn't see any properties on the HTML or HTMLLoader components which allowed me to change font rendering.
Does anyone know how I might solve this?

No one knows?

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