On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Christian Lohmaier <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >> font-family sans-serif > > This is not a concrete font. It is your system that chooses a font. > And if you have crappy fonts, you get crappy fonts. > All browsers I know allow you to configure the default serif, > sans-serif and monospace font. > So I don't think it is necessary (or desireable) to use a specific font here.
+ 1. This is the best explanation for our rationale in having sans-serif as the font. This has also been applied to the OpenOffice.org website. There are a few problems when specifying fonts for a website that receives visits from such a large variety of operating systems. Liberation and Bitstream display pretty badly with Windows Cleartype in some cases - Bitstream's kerning at small sizes isn't ideal and Liberation's letter shapes degrade at certain font sizes. Likewise, Verdana is not available on Linux systems unless the user downloads/transfers it manually. The problem with including many fonts in the font-family property is that each font has its own different proportions (i.e. Verdana appears larger than most other fonts at the same font size), and AFAIK, only two different font-sizes can be specified - one for the first font in the list, and one for the second. Overall, I believe the sans-serif-only solution is the most fair and easiest to maintain: let the user decide. Regards, Ivan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
