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The only way a font would 'break' a website with the Ubuntu font would be if it "broke" under the libertarian fonts as well. Arial or Helvetica would be the "de facto standard" for sans. This is talking about making it the Ubuntu font when it currently isn't either Arial nor Helvetica now anyway.
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:06:27 +0000 > From: teapot.philosopher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site > > > All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS > > implementations > > (they need not necessarily map to five distinct actual fonts). User agents > > should provide reasonable default choices for the generic font families, > > which express the characteristics of each family as well as possible within > > the limits allowed by the underlying technology. User agents are encouraged > > to allow users to select alternative choices for the generic fonts. > > Yes, yes, that's all well and good. However, that does not change the > fact that some websites would work better on a non-Ubuntu system and a > user could reasonably believe Ubuntu is broken (and in terms of de > facto standards for font sizes, they would be right). > > Acting as if de facto standards are less important than official > standards leads to brokenness. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp |