On 6 April 2014 17:52, Tomasz W. Kozlowski <tomasz(a)twkozlowski.net> wrote:
I was surprised to see that Twitter is now the
preferred method of
contacting the Wikimedia Foundation, and that it is much more effective than
long disputes and discussions on mailing lists, Bugzilla and wiki pages.
Indeed, it is so effective that it leads to the WMF clearly preferring
un-free fonts over their free equivalents; something that, I believe,
participants of this very mailing lists agreed /not/ to do.
I originally went "what on earth" too, then I went to the bug and
looked at the samples. Here's how the previous font stack rendered in
Chrome on Windows without Cleartype on:
http://i.imgur.com/9QD1ujH.png
That's ... pretty broken.
- d.