Re: Re: PHP.net potential font change.

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/05/14 19:07, Peter Cowburn wrote: >> >> I can’t really say much on this. On the few devices that I have >> available, the fonts don’t show anything horrible. (*hugs apple-branded >> devices*) I’ve not personally seen anything bad on the few Windows >> machines I use either, but the spread of OS versions, browsers, and >> monitors across those doesn’t exactly cover a huge amount of what’s >> available. > > > Having been living these problems since the 1980's, it is somewhat > surprising that M$ still have not cracked it. I've just had to upgrade code > from XP to Windows 8.1, and the window sizes now make the code unusable. > This was a regular problem from W3.1 to 98 to W2k to XP and would seem I > have to recompile all the code yet again with the font sizes fixed. That is > if the development environment would work on 8.1! :( > > Recent 'improvements' to Linux have created the same situation on some of > that themeing and I am wondering if that is part of my own problem with the > PHP site. The default sizes were not readable and so I had to adjust things, > and a few sites using 'strange' fonts are simply unreadable, but it's not > just the desktop machines that I have a problem with 'skinny' fonts. Both > the Android tablets and the Samsung phone were difficult to read. THOSE are > now more readable with the Fira Sans font! So, to sum up: Fira Sans seems to be better than Source Sans Pro but still has problems on some of your machines?