Without any attempt at being argumentative - because I am truly ignorant of the subject and freely admit so - is there any reasonably concise description of why serif typefaces are acceptable in print but verboten on screens? This has always seemed to me to be a sort of long-standing fashion thing amongst typographers, but as I know very little about the subject, I've never tried to argue it.
I've never tried to measure my reading speed based on typeface, but it's never seemed that different. Am I wrong?
A lot of it is due to the variable stroke width on most serif fonts. It leaves more room for problems with rasterizing the glyphs, particularly when the screen resolution is low. It has gotten better in recent years with more HiDPI screens but print still usually has better resolution.
I've never tried to measure my reading speed based on typeface, but it's never seemed that different. Am I wrong?