specificity and user style sheets

Please excuse my state of ignorance, for many years it has been  
fairly clear that the majority of people surfing the web have no  
clear idea about user style sheets or what benefits they might bring.

My expertise as is with people that have learning disabilities, and  
it is evident to me that someone wishing to use a style sheet, and  
thus learn about CSS would prefer to start with something simple such  
as:

body {background:black; color:white;}

however whilst there expectation might be that this would provide a  
universal solution to their reading difficulties, in reality it  
achieves almost nothing due to the approach to specificity taken by  
the WG.

Would it be possible for the WG to consider what changes to the  
current structure might help encourage development of user style sheets?

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd

UserSS.css

body {background:black; color:white;}

ex.html

<html>
<head>
<style>
h1 {background:green; color:pink;}
</style>
<body >
<h1>cheers</h1>
</body>
</html>

Received on Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:34:14 UTC