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Re: [cssom] Drop support for alternative stylesheets?

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:40:35 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDAFn0rOeS7fxDCSmGuwwhNtabUZ=NJTH9KkaJeo3h3rkA@mail.gmail.com>
To: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2013-08-29 09:59 (GMT-0700) Tab Atkins Jr. composed:
>> manually, with a bit of JS.  I'm not sure I understand what part of
>> the feature is difficult to reproduce on your own.
>
> A workaround at the outset would not only require rewriting currently
> working pages, but learning JS, the latter of which is unlikely ever to
> happen. The tiny bits of JS in pages on my site all represent gratis
> contributions from other people.

Okay, so the difficulty is entirely on your end, not anything
intrinsic to the platform; you refuse to learn what minimal amount of
JS is required to work around the lack.  That's not really a problem
we need to worry about, since web development includes JS as a matter
of course, and has for over a decade.

~TJ
Received on Thursday, 29 August 2013 19:41:21 UTC

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