Posted by Toby Inkster on 09/09/05 03:09

Amos E Wolfe wrote:

> I like the fact that (in Firefox anyway) you can select another stylesheet
> by selecting View, Page Style, and selecting the other stylesheet. In the
> header it is linked as <link rel="Alternate stylesheet"...> - is there any
> way to make this selectable by the user clicking on a link?

So Firefox supports alternate style sheets now? Last time I tried
it out seriously, it didn't; though Mozilla proper did. Most browser
implementations of alternate style sheets so far have been pretty
dumb though. Click on a link and you're back to the old style sheet.
D'oh! Even the grand and venerable Opera suffers from this indecorum.

A decent, useful alternative stylesheet mechanism still needs
a cookie-based implementation, with either client- or server-side
scripting. Anything else is a mere parlour trick.

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