- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2096 17:14:32 -0800
- To: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
What is a "user's stylesheet" if not simply the styling the user wants applied to bare-bones HTML pages? I can set background color in NSN or MSIE and it stays in effect until an author overrides it with a <BODY BGCOLOR=xxx> tag. Why should the situation change with client-side style sheets? IMO, users' style sheet should take _no_ precedence by default (superceded even by HTML tags). If an illegible page is encountered -- styled or not -- users should be able to toggle their stylesheet to _maximum_ precedence so as to override an author's tag attributes as well as style settings. I don't understand how things could work otherwise. Is the user going to be expected to set UA display options AND a separate stylesheet that only gets used with author-styled documents? Are documents styled with tag attributes going to get blitzed when a user has a stylesheet in effect? What happens to a mixed document -- with some styling in tags and some in a stylesheet -- when the user's stylesheet takes precedence over the tags? The user's stylesheet should be a subset of the UA's display options, and precedence should be toggleable from none to maximum. David Perrell
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