From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 12 17:47:21 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7AB147 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:47:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58C9144D for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.41]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D651D33C2A; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id CCECC39860; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:47:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Eitan Adler Subject: Re: RFC: Changing the documentation's font style. References: <20130412180742.3f2b220a@X220.ovitrap.com> <516820D9.4000204@astart.com> <44sj2vadas.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:47:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Eitan Adler's message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:18:09 -0400") Message-ID: <44li8nabfh.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:47:21 -0000 Eitan Adler writes: > The CSS Cascading mechanics prohibit the FreeBSD style sheet from > entirely overriding the user's choice. > Please see 6.4.1 of the CSS 2.1 specification. > > IMHO we should specify a font that > a) looks nice > b) is easy to read. > and support issyl0's changes > > Users that have different preference may override the style sheet. The reason I disagree is that you're changing the user's ability in choosing fonts from an ordinary option to a top-level option. That's a fairly big hammer. Most people have already configured their browsers with what they think is a fairly good font for reading generic text. There's nothing particularly special about our documentation that gives us knowledge they didn't have when they made the choice. The equation is different for people who don't know that they *can* change their browser font settings at all. I wouldn't have thought that there were really that many such people in the grand scheme of things, but I'll admit that this discussion does seem to cast that assumption into question. Be well. -- Lowell Gilbert Lowell@Be-Well.Ilk.Org http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/