Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-12 Thread Isarra Yos
On 11/04/14 18:42, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: I have merged the Gerrit change (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/), restoring the body font to sans-serif. The heading font is unchanged for now. I've read the entire wikitech-l thread (89 emails as of writing) and pondered this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-11 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: I would add as an issue, that there are major variance in the font selection based on platform and configuration. For some platforms, the typo refresh chooses a font that is significantly lower quality than the browser

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 11-04-2014 04:35, Steven Walling wrote: How are these specific, replicable bugs? DJ is saying things the current solution is not working and we cannot do better but there is no evidence about why this is the case for such a large number of users that it requires a revert back to plain

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Jon Robson
I keep hearing about ALLL THE BUGS but I've not seen anything on Bugzilla. This leads me to believe I've not been cc'ed on them or they haven't been raised (which would be bad). Please can someone raise these on Bugzilla - if these are being raised on wikis they are not getting in front of people.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 11-04-2014 13:11, Erwin Dokter wrote: [1] shows half the world complaining about the typography refresh. I forgot to include the URL: [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh#Languages_problems Regards, -- Erwin Dokter ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 11-04-2014 18:42, Jon Robson wrote: I keep hearing about ALLL THE BUGS but I've not seen anything on Bugzilla. That's because you don't *want* to see... Most of the reports on [1] are from readers who don't know anything about Bugzilla. That doesn't make that anything less valid. Since

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote: I forgot to include the URL: [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh# Languages_problems Out of all of these, the most clear is that serifs are not great for the headings in CJK (Chinese, Japanese,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote: There is also a tracking bug [2] with plenty bugs attached, among the [3], [4] and [5]; *all* language related. Buth the bug reports and Typography talk page have plenty of screenshots. [1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Brian Cox
Since that page was linked as the primary feedback page when the refresh was announced, it should be the first place to check for error reports. Claiming non-existence of Bugzilla reports is just plain selective ignorance. I disagree. Bugzilla is where we report bugs. If no one raises bugs as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Brian Cox nativeforeignerw...@gmail.comwrote: Perhaps all the user reported bugs should be added to Bugzilla for tracking purposes. But it's not reasonable to expect the average user to report them there. Brian/NF Yes I think we definitely need to track

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-11 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
I have merged the Gerrit change (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/), restoring the body font to sans-serif. The heading font is unchanged for now. I've read the entire wikitech-l thread (89 emails as of writing) and pondered this carefully. My summary of the situation is: * This font

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Andre Klapper
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 09:42 -0700, Jon Robson wrote: I keep hearing about ALLL THE BUGS but I've not seen anything on Bugzilla. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63549 dependency list plus likely stuff on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh that I'd expect the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 11-04-2014 20:00, Jon Robson wrote: Please don't accuse me of things that are not true. I do want to see these things, but I have to manage 1) mailing lists 2) bugzilla 3) wiki pages (which i have to know exist). I am only human. Thanks for the links to bugs I've cc'ed myself on all of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-11 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.comwrote: I have merged the Gerrit change (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/ r/#/c/124475/), restoring the body font to sans-serif. The heading font is unchanged for now. I've read the entire wikitech-l thread (89 emails as of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Jon Robson
It looks like Nemo has been doing this (thanks a bunch Nemo) but I wasn't cc'ed on any of these reports so I was getting just as frustrated as you thinking we were inside a black hole :) I don't expect the average user to raise bugs. This would be a great thing to discuss in the retrospective -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
I echo Brian's assessment here. Screen readers don't care about fonts. They only look at what the semantic elements tell you. DJ On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: And has any testing been done with screen readers and dyslexia readers to I would be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
My sentiment here is that all of this has supported every latent opinion that I had about the project when it was started. Years of maintaining templates, CSS and Javascript on English Wikipedia had taught me not to mess with fonts unless it was very targeted (preferring a specific font for a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: So for me, the question is not how can we apply pretty serif fonts to headers, the question is what can we do short term and long term to make that happen. It would be good if we could focus the conversation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Quim Gil
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: (snip) My understanding is that there are three separate major issues: * serif may not be a good choice for certain languages * The explicitly specified sans-serif stack needs to be further optimized * some people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: (snip) My understanding is that there are three separate major issues: * serif may not be a good choice for certain languages * The explicitly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Steven Walling
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Given that you do have statistics, how did all the huha around the ULS performance issue and now all this hit the use of the functionality for dyslexic people? I'm not sure what statistics you're referring to.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Quim Gil
On Thursday, April 10, 2014, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: I definitely agree with Erik's summation, but I would not like to open up discussion about Wikimedia-specific consideration vs. core, which is a broader question about what Vector should be/do that I don't think

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 April 2014 22:16, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Our 3rd party MediaWiki users (the sysadmins and their users) should not be affected by the unstable situation around font styles. If we are going to change their defaults, we should better do it when we are certain about the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Brian Wolff
On 4/10/14, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: So for me, the question is not how can we apply pretty serif fonts to headers, the question is what can we do short term and long term to make that happen.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: So for me, the question is not how can we apply pretty serif fonts to headers, the question is what can we do short term and long term to make that happen. It would be good if we could

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread Steven Walling
On Thursday, April 10, 2014, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, April 10, 2014, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Erik Moeller wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: So for me, the question is not how can we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-10 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: .. By lower quality I mean both subjectively, but also objectively. For example, today I was reading https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Hamilton_wins_%27incredible%27_Bahrain_race,_F1%27s_900th_Grand_Prix (enwikinews is one of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: It's pretty clear that the objectives of this project are not successfully met at this point, and in fact have caused major problems on non-Latin script WMF sites, and significant but less critical problems on Latin script

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Apr 9, 2014 2:02 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: It's pretty clear that the objectives of this project are not successfully met at this point, and in fact have caused major problems on non-Latin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 April 2014 09:26, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I havent looked at how much testing was done, or if there was some staging of the rollout, but it is clear that it wasnt careful enough. To be fair, it's easy to say that in hindsight. But e.g. who knew so many people were

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:06 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2014 09:26, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I havent looked at how much testing was done, or if there was some staging of the rollout, but it is clear that it wasnt careful enough. To be fair,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 April 2014 11:16, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Did you even read my email? Yes, I was responding to just that part. - d. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Isarra Yos
On 09/04/14 08:26, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: I agree with everything Risker said. I go further and suggest the team involved stops defending their goals and implementation. The former are not the issue, and the latter was indefensible. I havent looked at how much testing was done, or if there

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: It's pretty clear that the objectives of this project are not successfully met at this point, and in fact have caused major problems on non-Latin script WMF sites, and significant but less critical problems on Latin script sites. Several factors

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: snip There is a bit of amnesia about the fact that almost all editors are also readers and regular users of the projects we create, and those editors have been encouraged since Day One to inform developers of any technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Risker
Interestingly, but probably completely unrelated, I note that one of the options on your first reference [Varnish: Pageviews By Top Wikis] shows a drop to zero in page views at around 0625 hours UTC today. Of course, the view only gives an 8 hour snapshot, so it's not possible for an ordinary

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Brian Wolff
Which gulf is growing more quickly - between the WMF staff and volunteers, or between the veteran editing population and the typical reader? I won't argue that there is some distance, and a degree of conflict, between the goals and priorities of the staff and many veteran volunteers. But

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 April 2014 17:30, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: That said, we shouldn't be afraid of making changes where we reasonably think they might be a good idea, even without evidence they actually are. You can't have data on everything. I just don't like Well we are undoubtedly making

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Steven Walling
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:33 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2014 17:30, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: That said, we shouldn't be afraid of making changes where we reasonably think they might be a good idea, even without evidence they actually are. You can't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Risker
On 9 April 2014 14:07, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:33 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2014 17:30, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: That said, we shouldn't be afraid of making changes where we reasonably think they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 April 2014 19:36, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: And has any testing been done with screen readers and dyslexia readers to test #4? I've not seen any reports of that. We do have some regular users of screen readers who would probably have been right there letting you know if there

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-09 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Given that you do have statistics, how did all the huha around the ULS performance issue and now all this hit the use of the functionality for dyslexic people? We know that it helps but how do we help people with dyslexia? They are only 7 to 10% of a population.. I have not done the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread S Page
In https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/ (go back to sans-serif) Legoktm claims There was a consensus that listing only non-free fonts was not acceptable, that's not my recollection. Was a bug ever filed? Kaldari valiantly tried to put non-free fonts first, that caused bug 63512. Now as I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Apr 8, 2014 3:46 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:40 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I've read through this thread and I've formulated two questions: * Is there consensus to specify font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Brian Wolff
On 4/8/14, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: In https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/ (go back to sans-serif) Legoktm claims There was a consensus that listing only non-free fonts was not acceptable, that's not my recollection. Was a bug ever filed? Kaldari valiantly tried to put

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 08-04-2014 05:01, Ori Livneh wrote: Erwin, can you help me understand what is a suitable localization mechanism? I filed bug 59983 (Investigate noto font as potential replacement for diverse font families) back in January because I thought it could help with localization, so I'd really like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 08-04-2014 03:25, Steven Walling wrote: I totally agree. I don't see how there is any indication this is functionally broken or a major regression across languages, keeping in mind the necessity of ULS et al still. What major language-related bugs have been raised that would not be present

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Isarra Yos
On 08/04/14 06:57, S Page wrote: In https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/ (go back to sans-serif) Legoktm claims There was a consensus that listing only non-free fonts was not acceptable, that's not my recollection. Was a bug ever filed? Kaldari valiantly tried to put non-free fonts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Jared Zimmerman
I don't really have the energy to keep having this conversation, I appreciate that everyone has taken the time to weigh in on this whatever you opinion is on the matter. From Issara... * Windows users got fonts optimised for Windows, and which Windows knows well how to render. They may not be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Tomasz W . Kozlowski
Jared Zimmerman writes: I'm tired of fighting over this, I'd like to move on, and moving on does not mean going on to the status quo. The status quo has been thoroughly tested by 400 million viewers a month, for 46 months (June 2010-March 2014; ); it is a flexible and elegant solution that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Jared Zimmerman jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org wrote: I don't really have the energy to keep having this conversation, I appreciate that everyone has taken the time to weigh in on this whatever you opinion is on the matter. From Issara... * Windows users got

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: So, the font stack changes with regards to the status quo now change nothing for Windows users, changes Helvetica - Helvetica neue for Mac users and changes Arial, DejaVu Sans or Arimo for possibly something

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 08-04-2014 19:29, Jared Zimmerman wrote: I don't really have the energy to keep having this conversation, I appreciate that everyone has taken the time to weigh in on this whatever you opinion is on the matter. I am sorry you feel that way. But I have to make one thing clear: This is not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: Linux often gets arial. Anyone with wine will probably have it installed, too, and most will have wine even if they don't use it. It's not necessarily a particularly good copy, either. With the current stack that won't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: So, the font stack changes with regards to the status quo now change nothing for Windows users, changes Helvetica - Helvetica neue for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Erik Moeller
Just a note that Brandon just commented on the patchset: We discussed this patch today during our weekly design team meeting and how to move forward. At this point in time we are leaning towards +2'ing this but we want to have a bit of discussion internally before doing so. We'll have something

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Jon Robson
Copying and pasting what I wrote on that patchset For the record, I'm happy to +2 this if necessary but I still feel this is a short term crappy solution that doesn't truly promote unfree fonts as claimed in the commit message (since we are basically saying in this give non-free Helvetica for Mac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: So, the font stack changes with regards to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Jared Zimmerman
I want to clarify Steven's point, which was mostly clear but I want to make sure the details and rationale are pointed out. When mixing serif and san-serif typefaces using any random two font faces is not acceptable, therefore letting the browser/OS arbitrarily choose any serif to pair with any

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Martijn Hoekstra

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Matthew Walker
Perhaps this is a question that has an answer elsewhere but, irrespective of if this change should be made to WMF wikis, why are we: a) Making this a change in core? and b) Not making the change in core be a SASS variable that can then be set as a preference somewhere? (I say this because we've

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2014-04-08, 12:33 PM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: That is not the status quo, but the diff between the Odder patch and the typography refresh basically is the Set a non-free font stack to give Mac now Helvetica Neue rather than Helvetica, with a -2 is planted in the ground before as a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Perhaps this is a question that has an answer elsewhere but, irrespective of if this change should be made to WMF wikis, why are we: a) Making this a change in core? and b) Not making the change in core be a SASS

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Matthew Walker
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: Perhaps this is a question that has an answer elsewhere but, irrespective of if this change should be made to WMF wikis, why are we:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: 1) Picking a new open font that is either ** widely available on Linux but not so much on Windows ** renders well in Windows Coming back to the above option... Today we spent some time testing a stack that puts Nimbus

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Risker
I've been sitting back watching this thread as it has unfolded, as well as the discussions in a few other places, to better understand how this particular subset of the Wikimedia/Mediawiki community problem-solved. I'd like to share with you all a few observations. Steven and Jon, consider

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Isarra Yos
On 07/04/14 20:19, Jon Robson wrote: After the deploy last Thursday various users on Village Pumps bug reports and external sites (e.g. Twitter and Reddit) were informing us that the new typography was unreadable. Sadly it was difficult to distinguish whether this was simply a dislike of the new

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Isarra Yos wrote: 5) Restore the status quo - specifying 'sans-serif' as the font, which translates to the default font for the platform, had none of these problems, and resulted in fonts for all platforms which were good for those platforms (though perhaps not necessarily the best). *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Chad
This. Let's go back to what we *know* worked. -Chad On Apr 7, 2014 1:52 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/04/14 20:19, Jon Robson wrote: After the deploy last Thursday various users on Village Pumps bug reports and external sites (e.g. Twitter and Reddit) were informing us

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Isarra Yos
On 07/04/14 21:03, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: +1, but to me 'serif' rather than 'sans-serif' for the section headers is nicer. YMMV and can certainly live with sans for section headers Having different serif for the headers with sans-serif content can be a bit dangerous, depending on the fonts in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 07-04-2014 22:52, Isarra Yos wrote: 5) Restore the status quo - specifying 'sans-serif' as the font +1 for option 5. I have posted my preliminary evaluation at [1] and [2], which basically deals with why this update is so Latin-centric, and has non-latin scripts users left with a totally

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Tomasz W . Kozlowski
Chad writes: This. Let's go back to what we *know* worked. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124387/ has already been merged, so you're /just/ late – unless you want to submit yet another patch reverting to sans- serif. Tomasz

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: 5) Restore the status quo - specifying 'sans-serif' as the font, which translates to the default font for the platform, had none of these problems, and resulted in fonts for all platforms which were good for those platforms

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Jon Robson
I noticed from Kaldari's notes [1] that Open sans was rejected based on language support and install base. I notice however that it is pretty popular on the web [2,3]. Can someone elaborate on these results as it is surprised me? To me we can learn from this experience that install base

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed from Kaldari's notes [1] that Open sans was rejected based on language support and install base. I notice however that it is pretty popular on the web [2,3]. Can someone elaborate on these results as it is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Private/offlist Steven, I think you're missing what Issara and others like myself have suggested: just reverting the fontstack part, not the font-size/color/etc that are a part of the changeset. Greg quote name=Steven Walling date=2014-04-07 time=15:41:02 -0700 On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:52 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Greg Grossmeier
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Brian Wolff
Sadly it was difficult to distinguish whether this was simply a dislike of the new fonts or something deeper related to a bug. Since, you're changing something primarily for aesthetic purposes (I think anyways, all the accounts of why we even would want to change the font are very hand wavey

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 08-04-2014 00:45, Steven Walling wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed from Kaldari's notes [1] that Open sans was rejected based on language support and install base. A similar example is Google's Noto font (

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Chad
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.netwrote: Chad writes: This. Let's go back to what we *know* worked. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124387/ has already been merged, so you're /just/ late – unless you want to submit yet another patch reverting to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Jon Robson
I feel that I am not being taken seriously. Three times now I have indicated what is wrong with this solution, namely that a single font stack cannot possibly serve a global website. I'm sorry you feel this way, if I wasn't clear, I agree with you, but I think where we disagree is that we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 08-04-2014 01:14, Jon Robson wrote: Yes I thought I had recognised this. See my message above: The language support is more of an issue, but I wonder if this can be resolved by specific font stacks with more suitable open fonts is provided. I think we have a great chance to iterate from here

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. I've read through this thread and I've formulated two questions: * Is there consensus to specify font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; in MediaWiki core? * Is there an issue with specifying font-family: sans-serif; in MediaWiki core? Based on my reading of this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Isarra Yos
On 08/04/14 00:02, Steven Walling wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote: I feel that I am not being taken seriously. Three times now I have indicated what is wrong with this solution, namely that a single font stack cannot possibly serve a global website.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On 4/7/14, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote: I feel that I am not being taken seriously. Three times now I have indicated what is wrong with this solution, namely that a single font stack cannot possibly serve

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: No you don't get more consistency by moving back to an experience where you let the browser determine fonts. However you do get a situation where things are more likely to work for non-latin scripts (and other issues that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Tim Landscheidt
(anonymous) wrote: This. Let's go back to what we *know* worked. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124387/ has already been merged, so you're /just/ late – unless you want to submit yet another patch reverting to sans- serif. I would write said patch but I have no desire to get into

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Brian Wolff
I am going to be annoying and answer your question with a question: consensus among who? How do make a decision like this? On the one hand, you have Wikimedia users, who don't really care about the appearance of promoting FOSS or not. [Citation needed]. User's aren't one person, but quite a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Brian Wolff
On 4/7/14, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: No you don't get more consistency by moving back to an experience where you let the browser determine fonts. However you do get a situation where things are more

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Chad
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: We can gain more consistent, accessible typography across languages with an iterative approach that continues to build on what we've done over the last five months. Or we can go back to the drawing board to try and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Chad
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.dewrote: (anonymous) wrote: This. Let's go back to what we *know* worked. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124387/ has already been merged, so you're /just/ late – unless you want to submit yet another patch

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Ori Livneh
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote: On 08-04-2014 00:45, Steven Walling wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed from Kaldari's notes [1] that Open sans was rejected based on language support and install base.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread MZMcBride
Steven Walling wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:40 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: * Is there an issue with specifying font-family: sans-serif; in MediaWiki core? Do you mean just for body type as Odder proposed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/, or for everything? That's