Something that has been on my mind for a while: I want browsers to have better typography defaults now, when run without any CSS. System fonts. More line height. Better responsive support. Maybe with a new <!doctype> or something?https://twitter.com/timlockridge/status/1040299818759933957 …
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Replying to @mwichary
You mean like better bundled OS fonts? I think we’re pretty close with Segoe UI and San Francisco! A good specialized stylesheet could go a long way I’d wager.
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Replying to @erik_erikson
Yeah, I think I’m suggesting they might feel good enough?
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Replying to @mwichary
I wish those would be browser defaults instead of Times. I think typefaces, heading and body text styles should be OS-defined—a good barebones HTML doc as a baseline would be a neat idea. A style guide like this is how most good site designs are started anyway.
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Replying to @erik_erikson @mwichary
It would break a lot but I think W3C is too worried about how 1997 angelfire sites look on 2019 toasters.
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Replying to @erik_erikson
Hence an idea of an opt-in doctype or something. I’m not sure. Sort of not my department.
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Replying to @mwichary
An interesting solution. Client opt-in is probably the way to go, right. I wish this was a focus of AMP, built-in baseline decent typography. Would save tons of load time too.
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Replying to @erik_erikson @mwichary
The problem is, good luck getting most devs to care, but a resource/load time savings gets eng managers psyched.
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Replying to @mwichary
Maybe...riffing on that, maybe a header for HTML docs? At the server-level, you could decide who gets it, taking into account region, locale, UA, etc
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Yeah, those are really the hardest part of this idea.
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Replying to @mwichary
This is actually really exciting to me though, because low-bandwidth/high-latency regions need it the most. At a fundamental level I really consider it an accessibility concern. I can’t rant enough about how W3C has failed people with limited access like this.
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