Re: imbedded or external
by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>
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At 17:46 06/02/02 -0800, Shelley Watson wrote:
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>As well, I have tended to use imbedded style sheets rather than external as
>it was my understanding that version 4 x's of Netscape browsers handled the
>imbedded better than the external. Any comments on this would be
>appreciated and I would much prefer the external style sheet.
I've never had any trouble with external CSS in NS4. At least I've never
had any trouble with external CSS that I didn't also get with styles within
the HTML. Applying CSS by using
<.link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="site.css" />
shouldn't cause any problems. If you do find things going wrong, post a URL
and we'll sort it out for you :-)
>Hmmmm, anyone have a good example of a "standard" external CSS that they
>use for Netscape and one for MSIE? - that would make the javascript sniffer
>more appealing to me.
http://aamcf.co.uk/temp/css
That is a skeleton CSS that is pretty much Netscape proof. Copy and reuse
it as you need to (but don't link directly to that file - stuff in /temp/
is liable to be deleted).
Don't use JavaScript sniffers - it may be slightly faster initially, but it
makes life more difficult in the future.
>I have tried to have my sites degrade gracefully but still manage to muck
>up my CSS.
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What version and flavor of HTML are you writing? Are you validating your
CSS? I have found that, in general, XHTML 1.0 Strict and valid CSS with no
warnings degrades gracefully without any particular effort.
Andrew
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