I have an item on the feature-ranking matrix for Scooby 0.3 (Cosmo 0.5
now I guess) that refers to fonts. There are visual guidelines posted
here for Chandler:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/VisualGuidelines
This document specifies different fonts based on OS, which is a bit
problematic for Scooby (i.e., Cosmo's Web UI) since what we have right
now is pretty much just CSS (with a bit of variable interpolation, but
that's essentially it).
I'm kind of reluctant to start cooking up OS-sniffing code to serve out
specific stylesheets. That seems to me like a bad idea given how brittle
that kind of stuff tends to be.
Hoping CSS font-fallback will save us is not really a viable option
either, given that the same font may exist on multiple platforms, but
look horrible on some:
http://www.badboy.ro/articles/2005-12-29/index.php
Is there any reason we can't just pick a universal Web-font like Verdana
for the Web UI that we know will pretty much look good everywhere?
Any thoughts?
Matthew
p.s In any case I assume that eventually people will be able to save
their desired font (or skin, whatever) in their personal preferences.
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