151179 - alternate stylesheets not managed properly

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Ivan Herman]

The file refers to two stylesheets in link statements, with rel="stylesheet".
The browser should read them both and combine the style instructions. Instead,
the two stylesheets are considered as alternate stylesheets, and they appear as
alternatives in the view menu. However, this behaviour should be bound to the
the rel="alternate stylesheet" attribute value only!

Comment 1

[Dylan Foley]

Please see: HTML 4.01 14.3.2 Specifying external style sheets
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/styles.html#specifying-external

"To make a style sheet persistent, set the rel attribute to "stylesheet" and
don't set the title attribute."

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Our behavior is correct.  See the statement:

"If two or more LINK elements specify a preferred style sheet, the first one
takes precedence."

Since both of your LINK elements specify different preferred stylesheets and
there can be only one, the first one takes precedence and the second one becomes
alternate.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED that we correctly handle multiple different preferred stylesheets sets.