On 06/08/31 15:37 (GMT-0500) Collin Davis apparently typed: > On Aug 31, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >> User stylesheets as a practical matter are useless except to a subatomic >> sized minority of users. Few users who aren't also web designers will >> ever figure out how to use them, and even fewer will spend the enormous >> amount of time it takes on each typical site to locate and override the >> overabundance of ID and class rules that make generic user style rules >> virtually worthless.
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:28:51 -0700 > Felix Miata: > "What does the number of users who do or don't have to do with anything? > Isn't the fact that *any* have affirmatively selected something they > like better worth respecting? Why would those who don't care or don't > know be more important? Are most web users not using personal computers, > devices which by design are intended for users to customize as desired > to suit their own personal needs and preferences?" > So which is it... the number of users who do or don't doesn't have > anything to do with it, or because it involves a "subatomic sized > minority of users" when it comes to user stylesheets, > suddenly the number of users involved does matter? The contexts are very different. Today's statement explains why the existence of user stylesheets as support for the proposition that users have the power to override author styles is specious. Last week's is about the tyranny of the majority, the typical author assertion that because most users can't or won't or otherwise don't customize somehow makes it OK to show no respect for those that do. -- "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
