As Christian has already said, it would only be slower for Internet Explorer versions lower than IE8. But in reality it wouldn't be *that* much slower. You're talking about one extra HTTP request to pull in a 2 KB text file.
Yahoo! recommends as few HTTP requests as possible: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#num_http and placing the CSS files at the top http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#css_top If you were to follow those pieces of advice then it wouldn't be a huge performance hit. If you really wanted serve up only one CSS file then you could use something like PHP to detect the browser and serve up the default screen.css file to all non-IE browsers or a new combined screen.css + ie.css file. Just a thought. Gareth On Jul 3, 1:22 pm, Cristian Bichis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working by more than one year with BluePrint. > > I am having two problems related to the same BluePrint way to work. > > The ie.css file has to be included separated (as stated from Quick > tutorial): > > <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/blueprint/screen.css" type="text/css" > media="screen, projection"> > <!--[if lt IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" href="css/blueprint/ie.css" > type="text/css" media="screen, projection"><![endif]--> > > This is rising couple of problems to overcome: > - it's more recommended to have all the css side included on only one > file, rather than split on 2 files. This leads to slower loading + if > you take a look on SE tools like Google Webmaster Tools all recommend > having only one file in place > > - i am not sure how we going to use BluePrint ie.css component for the > case of html based emails (emails with html multipart)... > > There are ways to simplify the css loading to actually have only one > file loaded for the same media ? As far as i checked the other css > framework doesn't include separated files for IE. > > Cristian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en.
