FW: [thelist] Variable Stylesheets?

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From: martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
[mailto:martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]
Sent: 03 December 2001 11:28
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Variable Stylesheets?



Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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To:   thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject:  Re: [thelist] Variable Stylesheets?


>Yes, ALA has it's own version of this sort of, the style
>switcher by Paul Sowden, but that just selects between
>stylesheets already made, to give total control to the
>user, you need server side scripting. Or user style sheets,
>but seriously... how many users are going to know how to
>use them?

Depends on your audience I think - the more aware of the technicalities
the users are, the more you can give them access to (and with less
explanation).

So for a general audience, you might give them an "Enlarge/Reduce
text" option. For a web-dev audience such as ALA's or evolt's, you'd
give them a much wider range of elements to play with. And what you
might do is have a nice preview which lets you experiment a bit before you
saved a preference.

Of course, you'd need to explain what all the non-standard elements do...

Cheers
Martin

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