Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Mark Curtis
27;t either Arial nor Helvetica now anyway. > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:06:27 + > From: teapot.philosop...@googlemail.com > To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site > > >All five generic font families are defined to ex

[Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Brian Shannon
>    All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS > implementations >    (they need not necessarily map to five distinct actual fonts). User agents >    should provide reasonable default choices for the generic font families, >    which express the characteristics of each family a

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
If you prefer, straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-family-the-font-family-property specifically the paragraph on generic font families: All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS implementations (they need not necessarily

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Remco wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage > wrote: >> Sorry, but if a website wants to use a specific font, then they should >> specify that font in the stylesheet. The terms sans-serif, serif, and >> monospace are keywords that allow the br

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Remco
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Remco wrote: >> This may not be a good idea from a compatibility point of view. Many >> websites expect sans-serif to mean Arial, serif to mean Times New >> Roman and monospace Courier New. They expect sent

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Remco wrote: > This may not be a good idea from a compatibility point of view. Many > websites expect sans-serif to mean Arial, serif to mean Times New > Roman and monospace Courier New. They expect sentences they write to > be in that font, which has a particular

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Remco
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 21:47, cyrildz wrote: > Hello Paul, > > > Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 20:35 +, Paul Sladen a écrit : > >> >> Is your suggestion that we go beyond this, and set "Ubuntu" as the >> default browser font in Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, ...? > > Yes , this is what I mean, >

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread cyrildz
Hello Paul, Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 20:35 +, Paul Sladen a écrit : > > Is your suggestion that we go beyond this, and set "Ubuntu" as the > default browser font in Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, ...? Yes , this is what I mean, me too I use it in Firefox (all site render with the Ubuntu

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, cyrildz wrote: Hello Ngassam, > Ubuntu Font are really nice, beautiful, I'm glad you like the Ubuntu Font Family, and find it practical! > set the Ubuntu Font as default for all website, The CSS "font-family: Ubuntu" is already used on the Ubuntu sites, and additionally it

[Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-09 Thread cyrildz
Hello everyone , I was asking myself, why don't you set the Ubuntu Font as default for all website, the Ubuntu Font are really nice, beautiful, in the past is was hard for me to spend time on reading a File on the computer, but I notice now that I spend more (in the positive meaning) time reading o

[Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-09 Thread cyrildz
Hello everyone , I was asking myself, why don't you set the Ubuntu Font as default for all website, the Ubuntu Font are really nice, beautiful, in the past is was hard for me to spend time on reading a File on the computer, but I notice now that I spend more (in the positive meaning) time reading o