> System UI: risky, it’s a trap, there’s basically no legitimate scenario for these semantics on the public web.
How else would you style things with the system's UI font? User interfaces on the web can be designed to fit in the native system UI. It's a legitimate and useful thing to do.
I don't see how you can make a meaningful distinction between what's "online" or "on the public web" or not. A lot of web apps can run both online and offline, installed or uninstalled. In all cases it uses the same web technology.
Just because some legacy system makes a bad choice, doesn't mean everyone can't have nice things. I mean, did Windows seriously make all their UI use a single font? Do they just assume all the UI on Windows would be monolingual...?
I mean, it's standard practice to use a Latin font and fallback to other fonts for complex scripts such as CJK, because it's universally acknowledged that the Latin glyphs in these fonts are terrible and unfit even for the purpose of using it with the CJK characters.
Instead of discouraging or even removing it, how about actually encouraging people to use `system-ui` to force Microsoft and other companies to fix their systems?
Reading the thread it's clear cooler heads have already prevailed. The recommendation from the remove system-ui crowd was that there would be no way to access the system font outside of sans-serif. Why? Because some people have been using system-ui wrong.
If wrong use were cause enough to remove things from the web, we'd have lost tables in 1997.
How else would you style things with the system's UI font? User interfaces on the web can be designed to fit in the native system UI. It's a legitimate and useful thing to do.
I don't see how you can make a meaningful distinction between what's "online" or "on the public web" or not. A lot of web apps can run both online and offline, installed or uninstalled. In all cases it uses the same web technology.
Just because some legacy system makes a bad choice, doesn't mean everyone can't have nice things. I mean, did Windows seriously make all their UI use a single font? Do they just assume all the UI on Windows would be monolingual...?
I mean, it's standard practice to use a Latin font and fallback to other fonts for complex scripts such as CJK, because it's universally acknowledged that the Latin glyphs in these fonts are terrible and unfit even for the purpose of using it with the CJK characters.
Instead of discouraging or even removing it, how about actually encouraging people to use `system-ui` to force Microsoft and other companies to fix their systems?