- From: Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:07:47 +0100
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Terje Bless:
> Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@gmx.net> wrote:
> >[...] if the font choices do cause problems, they can just be left
> >out. You can use a lot of pretty CSS without having to say anything
> >about font-family. Just let everyone get his own default font
> >choice.
> For the next version, this is exactly what we did. The font-family is
> now generic (e.g. "sans-serif")
Actually I meant leaving out "font-family" completely. Some browsers
have hard-coded settings for the generics, that the users cannot
change, and all too often those hard-wired settings are pretty awful
("Generic font families considered harmful", anyone?).
> >Then go wild with colors instead...
> And the current state doesn't count as going "wild with colors"? :-)
Sometimes it does. :-)
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Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@gmx.net> <http://www.bertilow.com>
Received on Friday, 13 December 2002 05:02:44 UTC