@zebathome
Yes. You have to register a WordPress.org username account in order to post there.

I like to believe the best in people, but . . . yeah, suspicious.

http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic/return-the-html-editor-back-to-a-sans-font-instead-of-the-new-consolas-font#post-19388
This is the second post I am making to this thread. When I am logged in I can see my first post immediately after MMADfan 's and before dribblingpensioner's post. Posted: 3 hours ago #

When I am not logged in I can't see my first post above and that points to something very ugly!
Posted: 29 seconds ago # Edit

People who are coding should see lines of code. People who are blogging, even in the html editor, should see text with some html interspersed in it.

1) As I said in a previous reply, the monospace argument applies to the CSS editor rather than the HTML post/page editor. For the average user the content of the latter is mostly text, with some code when you add images, formatting tags, tables etc.

2) Thanks for demolishing the hype about the "feedback of millions of WordPress users" with the link you gave us.

If this were 20 years ago, I likely would have thought this "OCR look" was just fine, but screens and fonts have improved since then -- and my eye damage occurred since then, also.

It definitely looks like a "mistake" or a glitch, not something intentional. I kept waiting for it to fix itself, then came looking on the forum for the fix. Since there is no fix forthcoming, I am going to have to figure out how to use greasemonkey, I guess, or do my html editing in a different editor, and hope for a time when perhaps wp.com users are offered participation in beta testing.

Thanks for the info here, and I'm glad I'm not alone in finding it a giant step backward, not to mention aesthetically displeasing.

timethief - Thanks for moving the issues on. And I second your proposal in this conversation (above: Jun 3, 2011, 7:15 PM)

airodyssey - Brilliant! Your Greasemonkey script is exactly the miracle cure I'm seeking, but your link doesn't say where we can get the override and how to apply it to Firefox.

panaghiotisadam - Consolas on its own may look serviceable. But my own rant against it in the HTML editor is that the code is all run-on amid the text without any visual differentiation. In most cases you can't even have a line space between paragraphs to help identify them, because these will publish as double line-spaces. So the view in HTML is of a post area of solid type, without any easy visual signposts to locate specific parts of the text at a glance, or to find a detail in the HTML you want to adjust. Copy-editing in the past few days has become a seriously time-consuming pain.

ludusnaturae - I too use Preview for the only realistic view of a post before publishing. And it's a complete pain to constantly toggle with the dashboard to resend another Preview. Unlike its predecessor Cutline, in Coraline the Visual Editor in dashboard has never remotely given a WYSIWYG view, either in terms of colour, spacing, line-breaks or font changes. Copyediting in the Visual Editor introduces unwanted white space and junk code which has a mind of its own.

designsimply - Your link to the discussion about Monospace font leads off with a post from somebody who says "if I'm writing HTML". Well we bloggers (the end-users) are not *writing* code in our posts (though we may want to tweak the HTML). Almost all of our time we're trying to write and edit the plain English text. Why on earth does the developer's need take preference over the blogger's?!

Here's the background for those who are interested: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17640

To use WordPress.com, you don't have to know how to code, but if you want to be a part of beta testing WordPress, learning enough to participate in the WordPress.org open source project is the way to do it. Decisions about the WordPress software like this font change are made by the open source community and everyone is welcome to participate!

I'm full happy with the new font now. I have no worry with the difficult in see the text at a glance.

>personal opinion<
HTML is code, and code must be write and read letter by letter. For reading text between code tags, I use the preview.
>personal opinion<

Have a good day!

I too have a better html editor font today. Not sure what the font is called, but it looks better than it did yesterday. I too am a happy user today.

I don't care if it is courier or console or whatever usual one.
Now I'm satisfied with the font of HTML editor, and for my taste the issue is fixed.

Perhaps it was an issue with the browser?