At 07:44 -0400 2008-07-25, Jimmy Wales wrote:
This sounds simple enough. The javascript already exists, right? And it works? And it will allow people with older browsers to use Wikipedia today, while also providing a sensible path forward for the future?
That sounds wonderful! How can we make that happen on my.wikipedia.org?
If you are going to allow "any" UTF-8 font to be used on my.wiki then I do not see how I can be of service to you. What I can do is help to ensure that we know what the capabilities of Unicode-5.1 compliant fonts are, and to ensure that compliant fonts are listed in a reasoned order in the CSS. What is being suggested here sounds as though it would simply perpetuate and encourage the use of non-standard fonts. I don't believe that is the right thing to do, and it will just cause more work later.