Suggestion: Use Liberation fonts as default in Firefox 3

[Ian Malone]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 10:49 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit :
> 
>> Well I agree with everything except the above paragraph. I switched
>> over to the Liberation ones when they were announced to see how they
>> were.. and everytime I have switched back.. I find myself moving back
>> to the Liberations ones in a day or 2.
>>
>> However, I realize that deep down inside this is probably a religious
>> choice on my part. And any advocation of what fonts would look better
>> without large-scale empirical evidence would not be good.
> 
> It's pretty sobering to read the net archives at about the time
> Microsoft released Arial. You find the very same arguments against Arial
> by people claiming Helvetica was the one and true font, that people used

The major argument against Arial is that it MS chose it because it
looked like Helvetica.

> to Arial make against other fonts now. It shows how subjective the
> subject is. Arial will pass away like Helvetica did eventually. (now

Helvetica has passed away?

> don't take me wrong there *are* bad fonts and you *can* make arguments
> against them but they need to be awfully more detailed than "this is
> obviously better" to have any weight).
> 
> IMHO instead of bickering about firefox font defaults it would be way
> better to rip them out and have it use desktop font settings instead, so
> Liberation lovers can have a Liberation desktop, Luxi lovers a Luxi one,
> etc.

This is a sound idea.

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imalone