- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:09:19 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI HC Working Group <w3c-wai-hc@w3.org>
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Hakon Lie wrote: > Personally I hate when dialog boxes pop up, and I'd certainly not want > to acknowledge that the browser substitues Univers with Helvetica for > every page I hit. The negotiation should happen seamlessly on my > behalf and I, as a user, should be given a vocabulary which leaves > room for negotiation. Is there a diplomat among us? > JW:: Perhaps the least intrusive option would be for the user agent, after having processed the user's style sheet, to issue a warning, if necessary, indicating that it contains illegal values. In the case of numerical parameters, the closest legal value could then be substituted. Font names admittedly lead to greater difficulty. An option in the user interface could then allow exposure of the illegal values, and perhaps even allow the user to change them if the automatically supplied substitutes are not regarded as appropriate. Perhaps this is largely a user interface question which could be conveniently submitted to the UI group for further consideration.
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