mailing list archive is mousetype

[Felix Miata]

http://lists.kde.org/style.css

body { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:1.00em; }

pre { font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace; font-size:12pt; 
font-weight:600; }

In all modern web browsers other than Konq using its KHTML default, this 12pt 
styling results in 12px text, about 5pt or less on Retina displays and 
similar. There's really no point in either of these style declarations. 
Courier New is the worst monospace font there is for Linux users.[1] Courier 
on Linux is a bitmap font available in a limited selection of sizes, if 
present at all.

Most distros default to DejaVu Sans Mono for monospace text, which is what 
they would get absent the latter rule, and the bolding would be pointless, 
useful only when bolding is actually desirable, which is usually only if 
Courier New is used or emphasis is indicated.

The body rule re size is equally pointless, as 1.0 em is exactly the browser 
default. Whether the default is sans-serif or something else really shouldn't 
matter except to whoever is actually reading the archive. Helvetica is 
actually a poor choice on Linux, as fontconfig usually maps it to something 
else, and when it doesn't the result usually is a bitmap font in a limited 
range of sizes not desirable in web page use.

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2013-July/004826.html
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