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Another reason why Firefox rules

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software, Web Design

I was off read­ing Adam Ges­saman’s site and noticed that Fire­fox had tossed an icon that I’d never noticed before into my sta­tus bar. I clicked on it and was pre­sented with a list of alter­na­tive style sheets to use in view­ing the site!

Ok, maybe this is only cool to geeks like me who enjoy web design but wouldn’t it be nice if every site offered you the abil­ity to change your style sheet at will? And didn’t require some crappy Javascript to pull it off?

Or maybe I’m just the last guy to know about it, but I still think it’s cool and I’m mak­ing a note here on how Adam coded his style sheets so I can do some­thing like this when I redo my site at some point. Basi­cally, I think is a great way to main­tain the older themes of a site so peo­ple can see what it used to look like while still default­ing to the latest/greatest.

It looks like all you need to do is cre­ate the var­i­ous style sheets and then link them into your HTML like so:
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://idly.org/style.css" title="Default Style" />
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://idly.org/green.css" title="Green (Old Default)" />
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://idly.org/blue.css" title="Blue" />
Code appears cour­tesy of Idly.org

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