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, 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 (though perhaps not necessarily the best). > > > We're not going to do this. > > The idea that one bug requires a complete revert and even more disruption > for users is pretty absurd. Do we revert deployment of an extension every > time a bug occurs? No. We do it when the disruption caused by keeping the > new version is greater than taking it away again. This is not one of those > times. > > We made the last change, which includes vital improvements besides slightly > altered body copy font family, after months of testing and prep. But all > new software has bugs, even "simple" LESS-only changes when they have a > scope this wide. The latest patch by Jon was a bug fix, but that doesn't > mean we're going to cause further disruption for users by completely > reverting back to the old defaults. > > What we're going to do is discuss the options Jon laid out for trying to > promote free fonts in our stack, while also being practical and retaining > the enhancements that most users have been delivered so far. This is why we > iterate on changes in any realm of design and development. > > I'll also nudge us here to remember that we cannot make design decisions > like this in a vacuum, without feedback from non-technical users. It wasn't > perfect, but we've been working hard to do that as part of Typography > Refresh. Jon's latest bug fix itself is based on reports from many users. > So far they've been thankful we did this. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
