- From: George Lund <george@lundbooks.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:25:44 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Rick Hill <rrhill@ucdavis.edu> writes >I would like to ask that browsers be required to report if styles are >active or not. Perhaps through the HTTP header? This isn't necessary, because even if (CSS) styles are 'turned on', you can't know which will or will not have effect. This is because of the cascade with user style sheets, which may or may not include !important rules, and because browsers don't necessarily support all of the CSS constructs or values you have used. The latter could be a deficiency or because they support a different version of CSS to the one you used - there is no way of telling and no practical difference. > The guidelines for creating pages that are accessible to the disabled >require that pages be usable with styles off. It would be nice to be >able to detect if styles are enabled or not on the client browser and >take actions to modify the page as appropriate (server-side is better, >client side would be nice, too). Your pages (in HTML) shouldn't need to be modified because they should be accessible *anyway*. Fortunately this means less work for authors, not more! -- Gg
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