On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Remco <[email protected]> wrote: > This may not be a good idea from a compatibility point of view. Many > websites expect sans-serif to mean Arial, serif to mean Times New > Roman and monospace Courier New. They expect sentences they write to > be in that font, which has a particular size. If we change an Arial > sentence to Ubuntu, it will not be the same size and on some pages > that will not fit anymore.
Sorry, but if a website wants to use a specific font, then they should specify that font in the stylesheet. The terms sans-serif, serif, and monospace are keywords that allow the browser to display text using the corresponding user-selected fonts. > Now, we don't have Arial, Times New Roman, or Courier New, since they > are not open source. But Red Hat did contribute the Liberation set of > fonts, which are completely different fonts, except that the letters > are exactly the same size as Arial, Times and Courier. Using these > will ensure that web pages don't break. A web page that relies on the exact pixel-size of a font is broken to begin with. -Scott -- Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate Space Flight Laboratory University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies 4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
