46839 - RFE: user style override switch

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement, P3)

Description

[fantasai]

Overview:

	Given the following cascade:

	    1.) ua.css (importing html.css)
	    2.) user prefs & 
	        user stylesheets
	    3.) author's presentational markup
	    4.) author stylesheet(s)
	    5.) author !important rules
	    6.) user stylesheet !important rules &
	        user prefs override (always use my colors, etc.)

	I'm requesting a switch that will put level 2 between levels 5 & 6.

	<BLOCKQUOTE cite="news:[e-mail]">
	 <!-- fantasai. "Re: user stylesheet". June 26, 2000. n.p.m.style -->

	  This allows the user three options for controlling the document's
 	  style:
	      1.) Regular cascading rules (CSS2:6.4)
	      2.) User stylesheet (& preferences) override author's rules
	      3.) Author's stylesheets are disabled entirely.
	  
	  Especially as XML comes more into use, the option of disabling
	  the author's stylehsheets entirely becomes less useful (you usually
	  want to keep the author's 'display' rules intact). Thus the second
	  option becomes more attractive--a restrictive user stylesheet on
	  override can disable those CSS properties that are more likely to
	  be abused (e.g. background, text color).

	</BLOCKQUOTE>

	This way, a user doesn't have to create duplicate stylesheets with 
	!important rules, but can cause the "defaults" from the user prefs & 
	stylesheets to override the author style rules (but not user !important 
	rules) for a particularly annoying page via a switch, say, in the 'Use 
	Style' submenu.

	(I'm quoting myself a lot recently. I wonder if that's a bad thing...)

Comment 1

[Pierre Saslawsky]

The UI to enable the stylesheets or override them is, or will be, plenty 
configurable enough already. We don't need one more pref to control the cascade. 
Closed as WontFix.

Comment 2

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified WONTFIX