Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-28 Thread Del Wegener
Uhuh. A full time information architect recently told me that back and forward buttons had to be available on every page (distinct from esoteric site structure navigation), because you couldn't rely on the user having any understanding or access to the browser chrome. Can be taken to far. Way too

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-28 Thread Barney Carroll
On 28 March 2011 12:08, Bobby Jack wrote: > 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

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-28 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Jukka K. Korpela 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 _

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-28 Thread G.Sørtun
On 28.03.2011 08:54, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 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

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-28 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > 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 stor

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
"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

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread HallMarc Websites
Small correction, I left the wrong URL in there the snippet below reflects the corrected call. @import url("css/style800.css") media;

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread G.Sørtun
Support for alternate stylesheets isn't a problem. See, and test on... http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/userStyle.html How useful alternate stylesheets are varies from site to site, and from visitor to visitor. regards Georg

[css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread Freelance Traveller
While I haven't checked recently, I do remember that Opera, several versions back, had support for selecting among several stylesheets, if the web page had several stylesheets, some of whose REL attribute was "alternate stylesheet". Do any browsers support that today? If so, which ones - and whic