51692 - [RFE]Used stylesheet should be stored in history[AltSS]

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 83663

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi this is with 2000-09-06-21/Linux and a strip off from a bug reported in 6782.

If you visit a page which uses alternate stylesheets (e.g. above URL) and you
choose a non default style (or none), this value should be stored for:

* Reload (but probably not for shift reload)
* Moving around in histroy (back/forward)

Comment 1

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

See bug 6782 for prior discussion of this.

Comment 2

[Tobias Burnus]

See also bug 7380 ([RFE] Backend support for all page prefs on a URL by URL
basis) for something which goes even further.

Comment 3

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I think Eric can provide some insight here.

Comment 4

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav triage team: not critical to beta. use of multiple stylesheets on web pages 
still not very popular. 

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Bulk reassigning form bugs to Alex

Comment 6

[Tim 'Tool-Man' Taylor]

Starting around 2001-10-11 at 20:09 bug 6782 had some discussion about
remembering stylesheet selection across multiple sites, i.e. if sites offer
identical (or similar) lists of alternate stylesheets, selecting an alternate
would then apply to all those sites.

A red flagged was raised that this could be exploited to allow site operators to
determine which other sites the user has visited (checking with JavaScript which
alternate stylesheet was selected).  This only works if a user selects an
alternate stylesheet.

I think remembering stylesheet selection across sites could be a useful feature.
 Two obvious applications are affiliated sites using consist stylesheet (i.e.
www.themes.org, e.themes.org, sawfish.themes.org) or poor man's load balancing
(server1.mysite.com, server2.mysite.com, ...).

Comment 7

[James Lariviere]

AltSS could be one of those features that mozilla has that ie does not.  As a 
website developer I know that when altSS is used it is for the whole site.  
This bug prevents mozilla from really supporting and harnessing the power of 
altSS.  After viewers make an altSS choice, mozilla should remember that choice 
for the whole site and returning visits until a difference altSS choice is 
selected.

This should work like TextSize choice. :-)

Comment 8

[fantasai]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83663 ***

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement.  They have the same meaning.