G'day
a) it's more efficient because the style sheet only gets downloaded
once!
b) you can reformat your whole site just by changing the CSS file!
and what, we just hope nobody notices that they contradict each other?
To me it's only a contradiction if you read "once" to mean "once in your
lifetime" while I'm sure the intention is to say that the presentation
does not need to be reloaded with every (x)html page you load on the
site during a visit.
Having said that, I don't know how long browsers would actually cache
the style sheet - I have had plenty of cases where I've updated it and
had to resort to Ctrl+F5 to see the update (in various browsers). That
might just be a server setting, but I don't know. Changing the css
filename is not a good idea as you would then need to edit every html
file to point to the updated file?
Regards
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Bert Doorn, Better Web Design
http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/
Fast-loading, user-friendly websites
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