Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Multiple Style Sheets

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

I'm still abit unclear as to the adding path to images thing...is this a
browser specific deal or is it web server specific?

Oh yeah and I get to be Prince Adam a.k.a. He-Man :)

Adam

> +1 to naming us the PHPWS masters of the universe :) lol
>
> I definately like the idea of having a standard for themes, and tell all
> theme developers they must implement a style sheet for each of these
> browsers.
>
>
>> +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