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Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Multiple Style Sheets
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From: Adam M. <ad...@tu...> - 2002-10-09 16:58:47
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+1 to Don's idea of "forcing" themes to have a set of style sheets for
some of the most popular browsers. Just keep in mind when coding to leave
room to add more browsers quickly and easily. And always fall back on
default.
*shoves some food into Don's corner*
Thanks Don :)
Adam
> +1 to that.
>
> default.css should also be loaded if the actual stylesheet it wants
> isn't there. e.g. layout wants to load opera.css but I never made one
> for my theme so it would just load up default and risk looking ugly.
>
> Perhaps the phpWS masters of the universe need to say "OK theme monkeys.
> You need to have a style sheet for mozilla, netscape, explorer, opera,
> and a default. Otherwise there won't be treats." That would lower the
> risk of some themes not having a stylesheet for a relatively oft-used
> browser.
>
> I'll crawl back in my corner now.
>
> Don.
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Adam Morton wrote:
>
>> 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...
>> > URL: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
>> > Phone: 828-262-6493
>> > ICQ: 141057403
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> Adam Morton
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>> Appalachian State University
>> http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
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