"G.Sørtun" wrote:
Support for alternate stylesheets isn't a problem.
It certainly is, when native support is so limited and unknown to users -
what good does it do that Firefox lets you select among them when most users
know nothing about this feature and the browser does not indicate in any way
that there are alternate stylesheets available?
See, and test on...
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/userStyle.html
Well it surely demonstrates a _solution_, which is relatively complicated
and requires that client-side scripting and cookies be allowed, so there
_is_ a problem.
The practical conclusion is that alternate stylesheets are not of much use
_unless_ you also create an explicit user interface for selecting one of
them and program code for making the selection a preferred stylesheet and
for storing this selection so that it works across pages and across
sessions.
The approach, with its benefits, also demonstrates why the alternate
stylesheet concept in CSS recommendations would not be very useful even if
browsers widely supported it: it is based on a per-page selection, with no
defined mechanism or even a suggested idea that the selection be preserved.
There's not much point in surfing around a site if you need to select a
stylesheet every time you have moved to a new page
--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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