Hi Sebin,
Your scenario seems to be some bug in ULS. For me, ULS is working as it is
designed. That is, its default font is Meera. If I change the default to
'system font' I get what I have configured. My only complaint is, it is
forcing people to use meera, even when the system font is a decent one.
Each website unnecessarily forcing font on a user is a bad practice. Now
user has to know and do the font configuration for each website. yuk.. :(
My suggestion is to use that only when it is absolutely required.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Sebin Jacob <sebinajacob(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I get your point, Cibu. ഇതു് ഞാന് ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യുന്നതു്
വിന്ഡോസില്
നിന്നാണു്. വിക്കിപ്പീഡിയ സെറ്റിങ്സില് സിസ്റ്റം ഫോണ്ട് കാട്ടാനായിരുന്നു
ഞാന് സെലക്റ്റ് ചെയ്തിരുന്നതു്. ലോഗിന് ചെയ്ത യൂസറായാണു് നോക്കിയതു്.
ഫോണ്ട്സ് ഫോള്ഡറില് നോക്കിയപ്പോള് അതില് മീര കിടപ്പുണ്ടു്. എന്നിട്ടും
പേജ് ഡിസ്പ്ലേയ്ക്കു് അതു് ഉപയോഗിച്ചിട്ടില്ല എന്നതു് എനിക്കു് വിചിത്രമായി
തോന്നി. ഞാന് ക്രോമിന്റെ സെറ്റിങ്സ് എടുത്തുനോക്കി. When Fonts and encoding
was checked, I found that Serif was set to Times New Roman, Sans Serif to
Arial, and fixed width to Courier New. Neither Anjali, nor Meera was set
there. Coming back to the point, in Wikipedia language settings, I changed
from system font to Meera. The text was illegible and tiny. I had to zoom
it to 125% to read properly. When did that, leading space were too high. I
downloaded Meera again from SMC wiki, and replaced the existing Meera. Then
I reverted wikipedia settings, back to system font without changing
anything in Chrome. Resultant page attached herewith as wikipic1.jpg. It is
still, Anjali. Where is the forcing component, here?
Wait. I kept the above paragraph and the first attachment as draft, logged
out from wikipedia and rebooted the system to check whether there is any
change. The font changed to Meera without my intervention. So what I infer
is that, the code might have been changed to look for the version of the
font first before deciding whether to display Meera when it is available,
and to go for Anjali, if the Meera is old. I am not sure though. Anyway,
that is not the main contention here, but the font size. I have to admit
that, the font, though legible was still tiny in size. Attaching the page
as wikipic2.jpg. I then zoomed the page to 125% and found that this was the
preferred size, I would allow my pages to look like. The screenshot is
attached as wikipic3.jpg. The point, I have to stress is that, in windows,
the hinting of Meera is not up to the mark, when left without any CSS
control. It is but the most beautiful font, I have come across in any Linux
systems. Comparing it with Comic Sans is a far stretch. I would also love
to see a New Lipi font in webfonts to be selected by the user. Even an
anonymous user should be allowed to select his/her preference.
Even then, I do not get the point behind this venomous attack on ULS which
is not just about web-fonts and IMEs, but a lot more functionality
including interwiki links. When you roll out a new feature, it is natural
to have bugs, to which, when properly reported, the developers are reacting
in a war-foot mode. It is to be discounted that there are only three
developers for the more than three cents of languages in wiki environment.
Give them some fresh air to breath, without clogging the entire
surroundings with pure hatred.
Sebin
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