[thelist] Variable Stylesheets?

[Robert Goodyear]

Don't know if this is veering off-topic or swerving back on-topic ;-) but...

In ASP, would there be any wisdom in doing the browserdetect in the global.asa file and storing
the result in a session variable to reduce processor cycles for each page view? Any thoughts?

/rg

--- martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com wrote:
> >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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