Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Web Site Fonts

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

Han Boetes wrote:

Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
   

Le mer 10/09/2003 � 14:45, Felix Miata a �crit:
     

No, links should be underlined, so that users know a link is a
link without having to hover. See e.g.
 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
       

underline is weird. link in blue ok, but not underline, this is not
beautiful at all !
     

It isn't about beauty, it's about usability. Users expect links to be
blue and underlined. When they aren't, usability suffers, because
you've violated a standard practice they rely on.
   

People who don't want this can disable it in their webbrowser. And
mandrake isn't an art-like site. It has to be usable.
 

No, you should put sans-serif first, and leave out arial and
helvetica and verdana. That way, whatever the user has decided is
the best sans-serif is the one that will be used.
       

normal you put your specific fonts first and then default one (
family like sans-serif ) so that if the user doesn't have the font
you want it fallback to generals ones.
     

Normal only as in common practice, not as in wise practice. When you
have a need (normally uncommon) to use specific fonts on your page,
then specify them. Otherwise, let the user see his choice by making
only the generic specification, or none at all. Font-family: verdana,
arial, helvetica, sans-serif; is just plain dumb me-too-ism.
   

Exactly. Let people choose their own favourite font-sets. Once
again. This is not an art-site. It needs to be functional.


# Han
 

In this case functionality does not dictate that the default fonts look 
bad.  It is possible, and preferred, to have good form and function at 
the same time.

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