Alternate stylesheet UI is back in Firefox!

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Alternate stylesheet UI is back in Firefox!

September 11, 2004

Remember the big debate over the removal of the alternate stylesheet UI? Well, the mozilla.org guys have had an Aviary meeting and approved the re-inserting of the alternate stylesheet UI back into Firefox 1.0.

Check out Asa’s re-opening of the Re-insert Alternate Stylesheet UI bug report - bug 257859:

Setting nomination flag for PR since we’ll want to get this in before
PR if we add it back.

Well, I’m glad it worked out this way. And even better, the new alternate stylesheet UI comes with improvements as well.

The status bar UI looks almost the same, only the wording has been changed from “Basic” to the more understandable “Basic Page Style”.

There is also now a “Page View” submenu under the “View” menu that includes a “No Style” option that removes CSS styling from the webpage. Amazingly, this now strips all styles, including styles applied in HTML style attributes and even font tags! Try that on a site that uses font tags like HPB. (Before, the font tag styles will still be visible.)

On a somewhat related note, the “Work Offline” UI has been re-added for Firefox Preview Release 1. The devs will be working to get it fully (or mostly) functional before the big one-point-oh as well.

Posted by Chu Yeow at September 11, 2004 SGT |

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Really? That sounds exciting! :-D

Posted by: minghong on September 11, 2004 4pm

Firefox 1.0 PR Preview
As Asa said the 2004-09-10 build is most likely the candidate for Firefox 1.0 PR, I’ve given it a little try.

Before upgrading, I did a semi-clean uninstallation: uninstall the program, but kept the application directory. In this way, I can keep t…

Posted by: ubiquitous minghong - My Blogger on September 11, 2004 4pm

Excellent! I was quite upset that the stylesheet switcher was removed. Even if left as a developer option with the DOM Viewer would have been a good compromise, I use it all the time.

Posted by: AJ on September 11, 2004 11pm

Alternate stylesheet UI is back in Firefox!
The alternate stylesheet switcher is back in Firefox and is better than ever. Yay!

Posted by: Neil's Smaller World on September 12, 2004 5am

The Return of Alt. Stylesheet and Work Offline
The excellent mozilla blog redemption in a blog reports that Alternate stylesheet UI and Work Offline are now back in for Firefox 1.0. There was an furor when these features where uncerimoniously removed a few weeks ago. The added “No Style” feature …

Posted by: Blogzilla - a weblog about Mozilla on September 14, 2004 4am