Posted by mbstevens on 01/30/37 11:54

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:44:33 +0200, Els wrote:

> True, but if a page has a link that says "change the color of this
> page to blue", and you click it and it doesn't, it looks silly to have
> such a link.

I agree. A bit of javascript should print the prompt
itself so that when someone cruises in with
scripting turned off they won't be disturbed. I have more about
this kind prompt generation in the bottom 1/10 of this article:
http://www.mbstevens.com/howtuthumb/
....under the header "Getting the Visitor Back..."

> Same with cookies. If there is a link with a large A in a
> picture, meaning click here for readable text, it may be annoying if
> you have to click that A on every new page again.

Yes, that is a problem. I find the whole process largely pointless.
Why not just let them use the CSS you provide, or turn it off in their
browser and use their own stylesheet, or none at all.

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