--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote: > 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.
Reminds me very much of work I've had to do in the past to support text-size changing via a front-end 'widget'. Of course, as we all know, browsers support (to varying degrees) this feature themselves, but many users are not aware of this, so we made the decision to reinvent the wheel to cater for user ignorance. It sometimes feels like, as website builders, we're doomed to reinvent the browser feature-set in client-side scripts, in many different and inconsistent ways. Even for relatively straightforward features such as changing text size, let alone dealing with alternative stylesheets, user stylesheets, cookie management, etc. - Bobby ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
