Style Sheets

W3C describes how authors may specify mutually exclusive alternate style sheets and how user agents specify that the style sheet is persistent, preferred, or alternate:

• To make a style sheet persistent, set the rel attribute to "stylesheet" and don't set the title attribute.
• To make a style sheet preferred, set the rel attribute to "stylesheet" and name the style sheet with the title attribute.
• To specify an alternate style sheet, set the rel attribute to "alternate stylesheet" and name the style sheet with the title attribute.

User agents should provide a means for users to view and pick from the list of alternate styles. The value of the title attribute is recommended as the name of each choice.

In FireFox there is a pull down menu View > Page Style which if the Webmaster has done her work correctly gives a menu similar to the one on the left. After experimenting with it for some time, I have found it of little use. It is far more expedient to provide programed set page as on the Configure the Site page.

Internet Explorer running under Vista has the ability to set users sylesheets, fonts, and colours. However, I have just removed Vista from my new computer and put XP on it. So I won't be able to do this.