Re: [Bodington-developers] CSS and Colours in Bodington

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

Paul Davis wrote:

>Problem seems to raise its head on Safari that because of reloading style
>sheets the whole system becomes very slow to load one page.  It's a very
>real issue and one reason why we're thinking of simplifying the CSS
>Paul
>  
>
Simpler Java code or simpler for the user to operate?

Sounds like a different and opposite bug in Safari. If the settings 
aren't changing all the
time then the first stylesheet that was delivered should be cached in 
the browser and
used for all subsequent template pages.    Even the most simple 
stylesheet use - i.e.
plonking a stylesheet file into a directory on a plain old web server 
and referencing it in
plain old HTML files goes wrong for many browsers when the stylesheet is 
edited and
the user reloads the HTML. If only ten year old browsers failed you 
could tell users to
upgrade but when current browsers fail you have to bite the bullet and 
provide a solution
server side.

The main thing is to extract all the hardwired creation of CSS 
statements into a file that
looks as much like a CSS file as possible and a processor java class 
that can do the
appropriate substitution of values according to defined algorithms.

Jon