Cut the monospace crap!
Posted by matijs 11/02/2005 at 09h36
I’m ill, so I’m ranting. Bear with me.
I’ve now run across the second site that does something like this in its CSS:
p { font: 11px “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Trebuchet MS”, Verdana, monospace; }
And, with me running Linux and as a consequence not having any of the three named fonts installed, I get to see the whole body text in monospace. Sure, monospace is a great replacement for Verdana. Very readable, too. What are people thinking? Fucking monospace!
(The style contains more wonderful font insanity, such as giving the input element the choice of fonts Courier New, Arial [why yes, Arial is very similar to Courier New], or, again, monospace. Oh, and for some reason, this rule is !important. Sure.)
(The first site is less bad, but still annoying: Only part of the text is accidentally monospaced.)