Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Multiple Style Sheets

[Adam M. <ad...@tu...>]

I like the idea of layout loading the appropriate css file for you.  You
could name your files explorer.css, netscape.css, opera.css, etc. and
based on a check in layout the style sheet cooresponding to your browser
would be loaded.  In this case you may need a default.css to load when a
browser unknown to layout hits the page (e.g.: lynx).

Just my 2 cents

Adam

> 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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>
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Adam Morton
Developer - Web Technology Group
Appalachian State University
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu