I agree that import doesnt perform too well. Separate the files in whatever way will support the growth of your site best, and make sure you use some sort of combine tool / filter to reduce the number of requests
Ed On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Oliver Boermans <boerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Cole > > On Saturday, July 24, 2010, Cole Kuryakin <c...@koisis.com> wrote: > > Hello All - > > > > I've finally decided that I'd like to <link></link> a single base style > > sheet (base.css) into my projects. > > > > The base.css would then @import various other style sheets which would > > define the dclarations for project layout, type, color, forms, etc. > > I would not recommend you separate your CSS files for purely > organisational purposes. Do this _within_ your files. Less files > loaded by the browser means faster pagel loading. @import is also bad > for performance. Where you must separate your files it is better to > have multiple link elements. The other advantage of avoiding @import > is to see what CSS is being loaded into the page it is only necessary > to look in the HTML. This can save someone else a lot of time > troubleshooting your site later. > > Before Firebug l would separate my CSS into a bunch of files, just to > reduce the time to navigate them. Now the inspector in Firebug makes > this so easy there isn't really a lot of organisation advantage in > doing so. > > I hope this is helpful, even if I didn't really answer your question... > > Cheers Ollie > @ollicle > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
