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I understand what you're saying, I simply disagree with you. Typography is the most important design decision that a content site makes. Leaving something that
by nbouscal 13y ago
I understand what you're saying, I simply disagree with you. Typography is the most important design decision that a content site makes. Leaving something that fundamental to the browser simply strikes me as an exceedingly poor choice.
(One minor point — type is much more than just font-family, as your second paragraph seems to assume.)
- DanBC 13y ago> Leaving something that fundamental to the browser simply strikes me as an exceedingly poor choice. ...But that's the point of the WWW. You don't know what resolution or browser or OS the user has. You don't know if they even have a screen. I know I lost this argument sometime in 2004, but it'd be nice if people stopped trying to control where everything goes.
- subsection1h 13y agoI know I lost this argument sometime in 2004, but it'd be nice if people stopped trying to control where everything goes. A recurring source of amusement (or frustration?) in the CIWA newsgroups back in the 90s was the young web designers whose questions began with "How do I force". I never was able to determine if the decrease in the amount of these questions during the early 2000s was due to the decreasing popularity of Usenet or the increasing popularity of Flash.