D web site facelift

[David Gileadi]

On 7/7/10 11:12 AM, torhu wrote:
> On 06.07.2010 22:14, David Gileadi wrote:
>> On 7/6/10 1:02 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> What's up with the fonts in the code examples? Looks horrible now:
>>> http://imgur.com/SNTlv.jpg
>>>
>>> It looked ok before..
>>
>> I tried an experiment: I reasoned that folks would probably only have
>> custom programming fonts installed when they use them. So I changed the
>> code font to "Inconsolata, Proggy, Monofur, ProFont, Dina, MonteCarlo,
>> Pragmata, Anonymous, Monaco, Consolas, 'Andale Mono', 'Deja Vu Sans
>> Mono', 'Courier New', monospace", where most of these are fonts you're
>> not likely to have installed and others are commonly-used in IDEs.
>>
>> If the code font bugs a lot of people I'll change it back to something
>> more standard.
>
> I'd prefer just letting the web browser use its default monospaced font.
> Which for Firefox on Windows is Courier New 10 (size 13 in the Mozilla
> system), and that's also what I use for coding. IE uses the same font
> and size, I assume Chrome has a sensible default too. I don't know about
> linux or mac.
>
> Using the default font is an easy way to let people choose what font and
> size they prefer for best readability on their screen. I really wish web
> sites wouldn't mess with the monospaced font, but most of them do. :(

The default monospaced font on the Mac is Courier and is smaller than 
other fonts, so it looks a bit odd.  Despite that I'm pretty well 
convinced by this argument.  Any rebuttals before I make it so?