Amendment proposal: Generic font-family in style sheets

[dave-ha]

In WPB 10 the font-family in a style sheet looks like that:

Example:

font-family: "Comic Sans MS" ;

There is no generic font defined at the end of the statement. If the defined font-family is not available on the user's device the browser just defaults to its standard font. This could lead to unwanted typographic results. However, if a generic font family is defined in the style sheet the browser falls back to one of those, i.e. for a (sans-serif) font like Comic Sans MS it shows a sans-serif font instead.

Proposed amendment (examples):

font-family: "Comic Sans MS",sans-serif;
font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;
font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;
etc.

For specifications see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#generic-font-families.

I propose to enhance WPB in this direction.

 

[custer]

Hi Dave,


Thank you for your suggestion -- this looks to be a relatively cheap improvement, so we'll try to do it in 11.1.

 

[dave-ha]

Hi Custer,

I wonder what the status/plans for this improvement is. Could you please give me an update?

 

[custer]

Hi Dave,

I'm happy to tell you that your request has been implemented in WPB v12. As per RNs:

"Generic fonts are now defined in CSS generated by Presence Builder for newly created sites. Note that this does not affect already existing sites."

 

[dave-ha]

Hey Custer,
Good to hear from you. Thanks for your update on this enhancement.