[Phpwebsite-developers] Multiple Style Sheets

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

Howdy,

I would like to hear some ideas on how to implement multiple style sheets.
Of course we would all love for our themes to work with all browsers out
of the box, it ain't swinging that direction.

There is a pick_css.php function but it is lacking in functionality and
not really clean. So what would be the best course of action and
programming?

Multiple style sheets chosen by Javascript browser investigation.
Multiple style sheets chosen by PHP investigation.

Both of these will work BUT some of the browers won't use relative pathing
of background images. This is a problem when you ship your theme because
it requires the user to enter their web address into the style sheet. Not
a big deal since TextPad could do it, but a hassle nonetheless. You cannot
put {THEME_DIRECTORY} into the style.css because you can't parse it before
it is called by the header. You can't use variables because then you have
to change the style sheet into a php file (<span class="smalltext"> which
we don't want to do). So there is another option.

Have the layout module load the proper CSS and then echo it in the theme.

The ONLY reason I am not crazy about this is that it is not as clean. But
if this is done, the template processor could read the style sheet, put in
the directories, and return the result to be displayed in the header. Some
designer do this using the forementioned javascript right in their theme.

So I am interested in ideas. I want process to be clean and easy (if
possible). You should be able to untar a theme and be ready to go.

Let me know what you think,
Matt


Matthew McNaney
Internet Systems Architect
Electronic Student Services
Email: ma...@tu...
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