On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In which case why didn't we just push the changes
with everything
else? We must have seen some reason for them to keep out of the
typography release... was there?
Yes. I brought this up publicly two weeks ago at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh#Latest_release and
we've discussed it internally as an option since we started talking about
release in core.
In retrospect, it was probably a mistake to include those features in the
first place. From the start till now, I've heard pretty much universal
agreement from the community that, even if they were welcomed by some,
these felt like scope creep and confused users as to the nature of the
typography refresh. I disagreed at the time when we launched them, since I
think they're the kind of cleanup that helps improve legibility and put
content first. But users don't really see it that way in a lot of cases.
They expected a "typography refresh" to only include type changes.
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
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