Stas Bekman wrote:
> [Tom's comments:] > > And personally, I > wouldn't suggest named fonts at all. My Helvetica, for example, is a > PostScript version which renders web pages very poorly. I would > prefer that my browser's default sans-serif font be used instead.
Hmm, I actually like this idea. Will it work? Currently the fonts we have absolutely suck on linux. If this can work, I'm +1 on this idea, to do it right now.
The question is, why everybody else is specifying the fonts?
everybody does it to "force" their design over the users head i guess. i agree with you and tom [i personally find it a feature], but hesitate to make the move. people who want to use their own fonts will already know how they can overrule our stylesheets fonts. if people do that by default they will always know what to expect. if we dont specify the fonts a "normal" user [i'm only guessing] will first have to find out that:
a) our site doesnt specify a font-family b) where do i specfiy my own fonts in my application?
but if we don't specify any family what could possible go wrong?
I really dislike a few of the fonts that get rendered on my machine, e.g. I really don't like Helvetica to be first. But as we saw you cannot satisfy everybody when you have only one order to choose from.
And I don't want to specify in my browser to override all other fonts, exactly for the reason you have mentioned: many sites will be simply unusable without these fonts (I suppose). Is our site going to have the same issue?
lastly we will have to do at least some testing on various setups, so i suggest we move this issue to next version
I guess so. But i really wasn't satisfied with the fonts setup from the beginning and simply didn't know of any better compromise. Now that this idea comes up, I'm eager to give a shot if it helps many people.
But you are the design captain, so please decide.
> Many of your visitors will be using Lynx, I expect. (I, for one, am > always using Lynx when I am configuring a server and need to consult > the documentation.) You might want to direct some effort into making > the pages look a little prettier for them.
The only thing we can improve is the <pre> sections which currently stick to the main text.
how do you mean, no whitespace?
no extra newlines, like this % make next line
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