* 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). > > * Windows users got fonts optimised for Windows, and which Windows > knows well how to render. They may not be free, but /we/ weren't the > ones prioritising the non-free. > * Linux users got whatever (probably free) font their distribution > provides, for which in all likelihood their fontconfig (rendering > settings) is also optimised. > * Those with cleartype etc off previously had fonts that rendered > properly or they would not have been using their system with > cleartype etc off for all this time. > * Anyone previously using free fonts, on whatever platform, did not > have their choices overridden. This also applies to those using > dyslexic-friendly and other accessibility-oriented fonts. > * And so on. > > >Given that no objective and verifiable issues with this were ever >provided to explain the need for a shift to specific fonts across all >platforms and languages in the first place, this means there should also >be no issues with going back.
Sounds very good to me. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[email protected] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
