https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44394
--- Comment #62 from Ori Livneh <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #61) > Rolling back to the prior default is the easy thing to do. Making consistent > change in the font stack is hard and takes time. The current limbo is > inconsistent and messy, but personally I don't think the universe has > exploded because of it. (In reply to comment #60) > That is choosing one direction, which is "Don't specify a stack". It's a > good-faith one. It would also make sense if we're (particularly the design > and UX teams) not willing to put in the work to finalize a global stack. The link between this issue and any current effort to specify a font stack for Vector is really quite thin, and it's only politics that makes us pretend otherwise. You've hitched this issue to Jon's patch as a way of framing the current inconsistency as being part of a gradual roll-out, but it isn't: it's just some incomplete work that we left laying around. It is important to note that there is no future in which it is desirable to specify a font stack for the edit confirmation or login / sign-up interfaces. If by chance we choose this exact stack as the Vector default (which would be surprising, since we've done so little legwork to establish that the fallbacks are optimal), we'd remove the current definitions, since they'd simply be duplicating what is declared at a broader scope. This makes the resistance to change I01eec7285 confounding to me: is it motivated purely by a dislike of having been wrong? Would this be easier to accept if we changed the commit message headline to "Remove interface-specific font declarations to clear path for a site-wide font stack"? I don't understand how we can ask users to let go of old interface cruft that they've gotten used to if we're not prepared to do it ourselves. In an effort to move this along, I've created a page that lets you flip between the current login interface (with Helvetica Neue) and the login interface as it would appear after removing the font declarations. The screenshots were captured on a Mac with Helvetica Neue installed. http://noc.wikimedia.org/~olivneh/bugs/44394.html I'd rather not merge patches over anybody's objections, so please let's just come to an agreement here. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
