Why would this be the best experience?
In our case, a good experience means being able to *read stuff* and
understand the content as easy as possible. Therefore, a typographic setup that makes reading as easy as possible makes for a good experience.
Thats interesting. Some people have made arguments that the change would actually make it more difficult for some groups. My impression until now was that the change was being proposed because its pretty.
Why did the generic 'serif' and 'sans-serif' become insufficient?
They were in fact never sufficient. But for quite some time, web
technology didn't allow us to do it better. Now that it does (with webfonts and finer typographic control), why shouldn't we go ahead and improve our user experience?
I'm sorry, but you are proposing using a technology that was introduced ~1996. It predates Wikipedia by 5 years. How is the web letting us do better now (webfonts dont count as this proposal isnt using them)
-bawolff