On 4/7/14, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Erwin Dokter <er...@darcoury.nl> wrote: > >> I feel that I am not being taken seriously. Three times now I have >> indicated what is wrong with this solution, namely that a single font >> stack >> cannot possibly serve a global website. >> >> I want to ask Steven and Jon how they plan on serving *all* the scripts >> and languages in the world in a *single* font stack. There is not a single >> font in existence that can possibly support all languages. >> > > I think we actually answered this up front at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#Is_there_a_perfect_font_that_meets_our_readability_needs_in_all_scripts.3F_Do_we_think_this_is_it.3F > > Ultimately we're shooting for and getting a lot more consistency and > control over the user experience here, for most users. That doesn't meant > that it's perfect. There is definitely not a single font that is available > everywhere that supports all languages. That's why it's a font stack with > fallbacks. We definitely don't gain more consistency across the experience > by moving back to a situation where the styles basically just define no > style. > >
No you don't get more consistency by moving back to an experience where you let the browser determine fonts. However you do get a situation where things are more likely to work for non-latin scripts (and other issues that have been brought up, if I understand correctly). Consistency and actually working for all scripts are separate goals. If you can't satisfy both, you're going to have to make one take higher priority than the other. I personally consider the "Actually working for all languages" to be much more important consideration than consistency. Which is not to say its impossible to satisfy both. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't (Not really my area of knowledge). But from what I hear, currently we are not satisfying both. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
