On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:46:45 +0200, Hallvard B Furuseth
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Are there any guidelines or conventions for how to organize the
preferred and alternate style sheets for a site, sheets for
different media, and what titles to give them in the
<link rel="(alternate )stylesheet" title="..." ... />
element?
Not that I'm aware of. Not surprising, as the number of browsers that do
something remotely useful with alternative stylesheets is low. The feature
was dropped from Firefox 1 because it was deemed useless in its then
current state. Main obstacle: no way to 'set' an alternative style for a
complete website.
For example:
Are there user agents that have problems with characters like space or
apostrophe in the title?
No. On for example
http://www.w3.org/Style/ , the alternative stylesheets
contain spaces and + signs.
Are there user agents that can be configured
to e.g. prefer sheets with a name "simple" in them, so it's a good idea
to use separate and common words?
No. The style sheet title attribute is (and should) be handled as one
opaque string by browsers.
Should I have one complete and titled sheet per media type or "skin",
You really shouldn't mix alternate stylesheets with media stylesheets. For
specific styles for specific media, use the media attribute in HML or the
@media rule in the CSS - and don't set the title attribute on LINKed
media-specific stylesheets. You don't want the user having to select a
print stylesheet manually before printing (for which browsers don't have
UI anyway).
or factor out common elements to a common style sheet which is used in
addition to the more specific ones?
That saves a few bytes and centralizes your design a bit, can't hurt.
I expect to have users use the same sheet(s) for the entire site and
just use different markup for different types of documents, unless
someone says that's a bad idea.
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