[Design] Fonts for the Web UI

[Matthew Eernisse]

John Townsend wrote:
> You also have to code your CSS in a way that provides fallback depending 
> on OS or you have to have OS/Browser specific stylesheets (I seem to 
> recall that you can list the fonts in order and in the case of Windows 
> or Mac specific fonts, those will fail on the opposite platform and 
> you'll end up with something on your native platform).

Right, I'm saying I'd *really* like to avoid creating OS-specific 
stylesheets. We've done a pretty good job so far of minimizing the 
platform- and browser-specific hackery in the Web UI, and I'd like to 
continue that.

OS- or browser-sniffing code in general is pretty brittle -- keeping up 
with new versions of the OS/browser is always a hassle. And it's often 
unreliable as well.


Matthew