- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:13:12 -0700
- To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Indie UI <public-indie-ui@w3.org>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote: > From: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> >> For this purpose, user stylesheets will do fine, except that they >> aren't supported by Chrome. Browser extensions can also handle this, >> such as Stylish for Firefox or Chrome. > > It is very hard to convince customers to want to install browser extension. > > Like browser support for ActiveX plugins or Java applets it is a support > issue for IT providers. > > For example, a bank dislikes having to manage the communication with > customers on how to install plug-ins, etc. They have dealt with it but banks > find it frustrating to have to support Acrobat readers in browsers. Imagine > aging people having to install a browser extension and having to deal with > the support issue. That's fine; anything boolean can be done with the CSS syntax in a user stylesheet. Trying to walk users through putting together a user stylesheet is not any easier than getting them to install a browser extension, though. (Probably harder, actually.) ~TJ
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