216278 - [AltSS] Need more visible Alternate StyleSheets GUI

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Raffaele Ruffaldi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Actually the only way to select alternate Stylesheets defined using <link
rel="alternate stylesheet"> is to use the "View>Use Style" Menu and Mozilla does
not alert the user of such stylesheet unless you open that menu or summon the
page info dialog.
I think a quicker and more visible way should be implemented. For exemple
displaing an icon on the lower right corner of the status bar (near the security
icon) generating a popup menu would allow the user to be informed easly that alt
ss are avaible and to select them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Confirmed RFE.
IMHO, it should be up to the web developer to alert the user of the alternate
stylesheet possibility. Voting for WFM or WONTFIX.

Reporter: you might want to start your own project on mozdev.org.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

we had a bug 6782, but that's now duped to bug 107023
see also the comments in bug 103062 for a discussion

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107023 ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

v

Comment 4

[fantasai]

107023 is a *tracker* bug. It doesn't address specific issues like this; it tracks
them. And yes, this /is/ a valid bug.

> it should be up to the web developer to alert the user of the alternate
> stylesheet possibility.

No, it shouldn't. The existance of alternate style sheets is irrelevant to the
content of most pages and therefore doesn't belong there.

That said, I doubt this will be fixed since the plan is to change focus to
Firebird.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

Ah damn, removed the wrong one. I could have sworn that I had my own name selected.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning obsolete bugs to their respective Seamonkey owners (i.e. nobody). 
If you want this fixed for Firefox, change the Product and Component accordingly
and reassign back to me.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".