[CSS21] 3.2 Conformance: User Preferences

| UAs must allow users to specify a file that contains the user style
| sheet. (...) Additionally, UAs may offer other means to specify user
| preferences, for example through a GUI.

Are these additional user preferences, e.g. minimum font size in many 
browsers, considered user (important) styles after or before actual 
users stylesheets, or are they completely independent of the cascade and 
act approximately like physical restrictions of the output device?

IMVHO they should be like user important styles at the beginning of the 
user stylesheet, so as a user I could for example select a general 
minimum font size of 12px, but say in my actual user stylesheet 
something like

   h1 {-vendor-min-font-size: 16px !important;}
   @media print {
   *  {-vendor-min-font-size:  6pt !important;}
   }.

Regards,

	Christoph Päper

Received on Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:57:35 UTC