Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Nov 2023 15:29:32 +0700 | From | Bagas Sanjaya <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC RESEND 0/4] Documentation: Web fonts for kernel documentation |
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 10:35:47AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > So my immediate response to this is pretty uniformly negative. > > - If you don't like serif, tweaking conf.py is easy enough without > pushing it on everybody else.
As local commit of course.
> > - I'm not thrilled about adding a bunch of binary font data to the > kernel, and suspect a lot of people would not feel that the bloat is > worth it.
MediaWiki project takes the same stance regarding web fonts:
> What about using webfonts? > > Webfonts is a system to deliver a font to users who do not have it installed. > This involves having a user's browser download a font we provide, which causes > additional resources to load and would have a negative impact on site > performance (i.e. how fast pages load). This is particularly true for older > browsers. In the future we may explore using webfonts, but for now this update > provides greater readability and consistency while not degrading page load > times.
Indeed, it's possible to achieve the same effect without resorting to web fonts (as MediaWiki did), see [1].
> > - The licensing of the fonts is not fully free.
That was being discussed on the original RFC thread.
> > There's so much we can do to improve our documentation and access to it; > messing around with web fonts seems - to me, at least - pretty low on > the list. > > I suppose I can ask people at the kernel summit session in a couple > weeks to see if others feel differently.
OK, I want to hear about their opinion.
Thanks.
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh
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