On 8 Dec 2000 21:09:15 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Manfredson) wrote:
>
>What is the menu view->use stylesheet good for ?
>
It can be used to change stylesheets when the author provides multiple
style sheets for a given page (via the link tag with rel="alternate
stylesheet").
Try out the menu with this page.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/ssui/
This is a wonderful feature and I hope more is done in the future to
save your stylesheet selection for a page and anything else to
encourage authors to use this. This is a good way for an author to
experiment with "fresh looks" without changing the way a site looks
every week. I wish there was a very small indication (icon or
something similar) if a page had multiple stylesheets because this
feature won't be widely adopted if people are forced to dig through a
menu to determine that a page supports this feature. Assuming a page
uses this system, it means that it would be easy for the user to look
at the author's stylesheets and write a custom version as a user
stylesheet (if mozilla had a better UI for user style sheets...)
There are many very cool possibilities to build on top of the
stylesheet system. The authors of the CSS and HTML specs always
intended for there to be various levels of interaction between the
author, the user, and the browser when dealing with stylesheets.
Unfortunately, the browsers have been slow to expose such features at
the UI level even though the basic functionality exists.
Chris Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
