Posted by Spartanicus on 09/15/05 12:59

Toby Inkster <usenet200509@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

>>>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!
>>
>> A browser solution to that issue would have to be based on tracking the
>> (sub) domain.
>
>Think smarter.
>
>When the user chooses an alternate style sheet, then goes to another page,
>the browser could check to see if the page also offered the same alternate
>style sheet. If so, it should keep using that alternate style sheet
>instead of the page's default style. As soon as the browser reaches a page
>that doesn't offer the same alternate style sheet, it should start using
>the page's default style sheet.

I'm not sure about that. Consider various sites using the same
stylesheets hosted on another server (syndicated content perhaps). Path
information via the base element might pose another problem.

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Spartanicus

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