- From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:30:49 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 2011/01/20 06:15 (GMT-0500) Shropshire, Andrew A composed: > ...would like to see it in a standard so I don't have to worry about which > browser end-users have or do the same thing 5 different ways. The > alternate style sheet mechanism is useful too, however it would seem the > user has to select the alternate style sheet with every visit to the site.... Such things are symptom treatments, not disease treatments. They're defenses against offensive (rude) site design. Better to spend the effort to rid the web of the disease. What needs to be done is strongly evangelize polite design (starting with WCAG) to end the curse of designers' and stylists' archaic notion that browser defaults are inappropriate. If all sites were 100%-based[1][2], accepting that whatever browser defaults are set to are at least acceptable if not perfect, at least 2/3[3] of need to defend would disappear, making the web a much friendlier place. [1] http://www.informationarchitects.jp/100e2r?v=4 [2] http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/userdefaultbased.html [3] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html See also: http://tobyinkster.co.uk/article/web-fonts/ http://www.w3.org/2003/07/30-font-size http://www.wilsonminer.com/posts/2008/oct/20/relative-readability/ http://www.webdesignconferencing.com/web_design/the_web_is_not_paper http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/rudeweb.html -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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