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Re: GitHub.com font changed

#15

Post by haukur »

The idea behind this change seems to be centred around using a modern font no matter what device the user is on while not sacrificing performance. The trade-off here is brand consistency, but if the alternatives are to use an archaic font or a slow webfont, I think this approach wins.

Re: GitHub.com font changed

#16

Post by flukus »

rvern wrote: post #7

One of the most useful options in Firefox is the checkbox "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"[1], also available as browser.display.use_document_fonts in about:config. When this is unchecked, Firefox will ignore all fonts specified by web pages and just use the much-more-likely-to-be-reasonable choice of default font you have made; and you can then disable web fonts, which will mak…

What happens when sites are using font's for images?

Re: GitHub.com font changed

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Post by ori_b »

flukus wrote: post #16
rvern wrote: post #7

One of the most useful options in Firefox is the checkbox "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"[1], also available as browser.display.use_document_fonts in about:config. When this is unchecked, Firefox will ignore all fonts specified by web pages and just use the much-more-likely-to-be-reasonable choice of default font you have made; and you can then disable web fonts, which will mak…

What happens when sites are using font's for images?

Then it breaks. I can deal with that -- there aren't very many sites that decide to abuse fonts that way, in any case.

And who knows, maybe one day SVG will actually reliably render correctly in browsers, and people will use images when they want to display images

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