At 09:35 AM 7/16/2005, Felix Miata wrote:
Another possibility is to specify no font family at all, thus allowing
visitors to see their actual preference. Or, specify merely sans-serif
or serif as your basic preference, which allows visitors to see their
sans-serif or serif preference. CSS is supposed to suggest styles to
apply, not enforce them above the wishes of users.
Felix,
The perspective you're expressing sounds a bit extreme to me. Should we
specify no styles at all in CSS, instead letting the "users' preferences"
dictate fonts, colors, and layout? HTML and CSS enable us to design pages,
and design them we will. That's why we have more than one designer in the
world: different people manifest their creativity and intelligence in very
different ways, and vive la difference! It's important that our designs
accommodate users with limited or no vision, color-blindness, fine motor
control issues, etc., but because font-family choice has such a powerful
effect on page design I can't imagine leaving my websites' font choices up
to browser defaults, which are mostly set to Times for serif and are most
likely never modified by the vast majority of users.
Regards,
Paul
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