- From: Michael Seaton <mseaton@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 96 18:34:33 GMT
- To: www-style@w3.org
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/css/msie/link.htm: > In MS IE 3.0 beta 1, a style sheet referenced through the LINK element > will automatically be applied to a document. However, according to ^^^^^^^^^ ^^ > the specification, the LINK element should be used to refer to ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > alternative style sheets that the user can select. If you style sheets to > be automatically applied, the @import .. construct within the > STYLE element is better: Here is the actual wording: : Authors can use LINK elements to offer readers a choice of style sheets, : e.g: : <LINK TITLE="Old" REL=stylesheet HREF="old.style" TYPE="application/dsssl"> : <LINK TITLE="New" REL=stylesheet HREF="new.style" TYPE="application/rtf"> : <LINK TITLE="Wacky" REL=stylesheet HREF="wacky.style" TYPE="text/css"> Nowhere does it say that <STYLE> *must* be used for a style sheet to be automatically applied. I also feel it would be foolish to insist on this, as <STYLE> results in the style sheet appearing as gibberish at the start of the page on browsers that do not support it, while <LINK rel=stylesheet> is simply ignored. -- Michael Seaton (mseaton@inforamp.net)
Received on Sunday, 16 June 1996 14:34:35 UTC