On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Martin Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Switch to the Liberation fonts and pick two reasonable (redistributable and > metric compatible hopefully) choices for cursive and fantasy.
So, some background: The reason we care about metric compatible fonts is because some sites are designed with assumptions about the pixels sizes of fonts. Check out the screenshots on bugs like http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32005 Even simple sites like del.icio.us do this! :( We concluded it's very important to pick an Arial-sized font when rendering sites that ask for Arial, since you can't know in advance how much the site depends on it. But other font styles (cursive, fantasy) and even monospace fonts (courier) are less likely to be relied upon by sites. (The only one that comes to mind is the way github does line numbering, but their layout is busted in all sorts of browsers including Windows Chrome I think.) So I think the *minimum* you want is metric-compatible for Arial; maybe Times New Roman to be safe, but for the remaining fonts you can probably pick anything and no pages will suffer. _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk
