font:arial,sans-serif in that order

[Алексей Подтележников]

Many popular websites specify their style as font:arial,sans-serif in
that particular order.
This goes for www.cnn.com, www.yahoo.com, www.bbc.co.uk.

When I have actual Arial available, konqueror 3.5.8 seems to pick
Arial, which is great.
When I don't have Arial available, konqueror 3,5,8 seems to pick
DejaVu Sans, which is fine. When I have Liberation Sans available and
aliased as Arial in fontconfig, konqueror seems to go for sans-serif,
which is not good.

Liberation family has exact metrics of Microsoft fonts and, therefore,
looks a lot better than DejaVu Sans on many popular websites.
Konqueror seems to ignore aliasing and goes for sans. I think it's a
bug, Arial clearly is preferred choice in the css because it precedes
sans-serif. Even then the default sans for the desktop is DejaVu sans,
konqueror should respect the website design. To give a Microsoft
analogy, tahoma is default on the desktop, while websites usually go
with Arial.

What about people who hate Arial and anything similar? They certainly
should not own default konqueror behavior.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355271

Thanks
 
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