Conditional Comments Bad? - was: Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-06 Thread Tony Crockford
Tony Crockford wrote: Snipped lots of CC's so that really old browsers get unstyled content and any IE hacks are filtered into alternative stylesheets. works for me. and having caught up with my reading, the use of CC's seems to be frowned upon. since I mostly use the CC's for max width

Re: Conditional Comments Bad? - was: Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tony Crockford wrote: and having caught up with my reading, the use of CC's seems to be frowned upon. I can't see why - as long as CC's are used to serve a minimal number of fixes to _old_ IE/win versions. Old browsers are fixed in time. It is when one starts a design-process by preparing

Re: Conditional Comments Bad? - was: Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-06 Thread Jehangir Larry
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Tony Crockford wrote: and having caught up with my reading, the use of CC's seems to be frowned upon. I can't see why - as long as CC's are used to serve a minimal number of fixes to _old_ IE/win versions. Old browsers are fixed in time. It is when one starts a

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2007-02-06 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
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[WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-05 Thread Barney Carroll
link? style @import? Which do you use, for what, and why? Regards, Barney *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-05 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:19:52PM +, Barney Carroll wrote: link? style @import? Which do you use, for what, and why? Unless you have need @import's weird support in browsers for some CSS parser hack, link - since it feels silly to have a stylesheet that contains nothing but a

Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-05 Thread Tim
I use link with relative path directories, I think it is quicker than importing a file with a full URL but I have never been sure about this. A relative URL using link should be quicker, especially when I load seven stylesheets. Good question, I bet there are better answers. Tim On

Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Barney Carroll wrote: link? style @import? Which do you use, for what, and why? In document: 'link' with relative path. I use 'style' for adding page-specific, and often media-dependent, styles, but do not use @import in documents. - All browsers understand 'link', and some don't

Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Barney Carroll wrote: link? style @import? I use style with the @import directive so I can plug document specific rules or files using the *same* element. --- Regards, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-05 Thread Tony Crockford
Barney Carroll wrote: link? style @import? Which do you use, for what, and why? here's what I do: !-- import complex style sheet hides from older browsers -- style type=text/css media=screen @import /styles/layout.css; /style !-- begin conditional

Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-05 Thread Kat
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: In document: 'link' with relative path. I use 'style' for adding page-specific, and often media-dependent, styles, but do not use @import in documents. - All browsers understand 'link', and some don't understand anything else. - I do not separate browsers on this level.

Re: [WSG] CSS calling methods survey

2007-02-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kat wrote: I'm beginning to think modular css using @imports are actually quite smart, not just for re-use reasons but also because if you do need to support really old and dodgy browsers (sometimes it happens to the best of us) you can create stylesheets for those, and then over-rule them in