- From: Gustavo Ferreira <gustavo.ferreira@hipertipo.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:23:10 -0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Op Nov 13, 2008, om 2:58 PM heeft Tab Atkins Jr. het volgende > geschreven: > >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Philip TAYLOR >> <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>> >>> No, I mean it quite literally. Our level of happiness would be >>> strictly increased by allowing only free font linking, because >>> right now we have *no* font linking. We would be happy with >>> this. We would by *happier* with commercial fonts as well, but >>> *any* font-linking is an improvement that would make our lives >>> better. >>> >>> If you have no cake, then a bite of cake makes you happy (if you >>> prefer relative terms, "happier than before"). A whole slice >>> would be better, but that bite is still better than no cake at all. >> >> That still begs the question "who is 'we'" ? >> Philip TAYLOR > > Web designers. > > Again, our current situation is no fonts at all. Unless you can > come up with some designers who are actually happier with no font- > linking than they would be with only-free-font-linking, I think I'm > correct in my usage of the pronoun. Again (again), I would > certainly be *more* happy if commercial fonts were available as > well and reasonably easy to use. But some fonts are better than no > fonts, and I don't think it's possible to make a reasonable > argument to the contrary. this is depressing. you don't deserve any cake. if there are a few good free fonts out there, it's because 'commercial' type-designers made them. i'm out of here!
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