Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, cyrildz wrote: Hello Ngassam, Ubuntu Font are really nice, beautiful, I'm glad you like the Ubuntu Font Family, and find it practical! set the Ubuntu Font as default for all website, The CSS font-family: Ubuntu is already used on the Ubuntu sites, and additionally it is

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread cyrildz
Hello Paul, Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 20:35 +, Paul Sladen a écrit : Is your suggestion that we go beyond this, and set Ubuntu as the default browser font in Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, ...? Yes , this is what I mean, me too I use it in Firefox (all site render with the Ubuntu

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Remco
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 21:47, cyrildz cyri...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Paul, Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 20:35 +, Paul Sladen a écrit : Is your suggestion that we go beyond this, and set Ubuntu as the default browser font in Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, ...? Yes , this is what I mean,

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Remco
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage launch...@scott.armitage.name wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage launch...@scott.armitage.name wrote: 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

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
If you prefer, straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-family-the-font-family-property specifically the paragraph on generic font families: All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS implementations (they need not necessarily

[Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Brian Shannon
   All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS implementations    (they need not necessarily map to five distinct actual fonts). User agents    should provide reasonable default choices for the generic font families,    which express the characteristics of each family as

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Mark Curtis
. Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:06:27 + From: teapot.philosop...@googlemail.com To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS implementations (they need not necessarily map

[Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-09 Thread cyrildz
Hello everyone , I was asking myself, why don't you set the Ubuntu Font as default for all website, the Ubuntu Font are really nice, beautiful, in the past is was hard for me to spend time on reading a File on the computer, but I notice now that I spend more (in the positive meaning) time reading

[Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-09 Thread cyrildz
Hello everyone , I was asking myself, why don't you set the Ubuntu Font as default for all website, the Ubuntu Font are really nice, beautiful, in the past is was hard for me to spend time on reading a File on the computer, but I notice now that I spend more (in the positive meaning) time reading