One of the comments on that the story summed up my first impressions quite well-
I'm glad Firefox let's me override whatever horrible font the web designers choose. I'm really glad I'll be able to ignore potentially thousands of unreadable fonts.
That checkbox is one of the first things I reached for when trying out Chrome recently, and when I couldn't find it I went back to Firefox pretty quickly.
It's kind of a shame - because there's no widely-available, attractive fonts for web pages, authors must specify ugly fonts. Because authors specify ugly fonts, people who have attractive fonts installed have to configure their browsers to use their font-of-choice and ignore authors' suggestions. Because authors' font suggestions are ignored, the minority of authors who go to the effort of using WOFF and picking out attractive fonts have their effort wasted.
Maybe one day the authors who care about typography will specify good fonts, and the authors who don't will leave my chosen defaults alone, and then I'll go back and tick the "allow webpages to choose their own fonts" box again.
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It's kind of a shame - because there's no widely-available, attractive fonts for web pages, authors must specify ugly fonts. Because authors specify ugly fonts, people who have attractive fonts installed have to configure their browsers to use their font-of-choice and ignore authors' suggestions. Because authors' font suggestions are ignored, the minority of authors who go to the effort of using WOFF and picking out attractive fonts have their effort wasted.
Maybe one day the authors who care about typography will specify good fonts, and the authors who don't will leave my chosen defaults alone, and then I'll go back and tick the "allow webpages to choose their own fonts" box again.