[Phpwebsite-developers] Re: CSS & Themes

[Randall W. <rh...@ma...>]

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I would not like to see a large number of nearly identical .css files.

I do, however, have a suggestion concerning how to handle style sheets:

1)	Have PHPWS parse the default style sheet.
2)	Have PHPWS merge any browser-specific style sheet that may exist 
into the default style sheet,
where the browser specific style sheet overrides the default.
3)	Include the style sheet in the XHTML code using a <style></style> 
element, rather than linking it with a <link/> element. While embedding 
this increases the bandwidth used, not all browsers can merge multiple 
style sheets included in <link/> elements correctly.

There is a fun problem with Gecko (Mozilla) based browsers: Since they 
do not all ID themselves as Mozilla/Netscape, does each Gecko browser 
require a separate style sheet, or do they wind up with a "default" 
style sheet that is weak so is not to break some other 
lowest-common-denominator browser?

Browsers that had trouble with a relative URL in a style sheet may have 
been following correct standards: The CSS standards require that a 
relative URL in a style sheet be relative to the style sheet's URL, not 
to the HTML document's URL.

Do we want to encourage PHPWS websites that include "best viewed with 
[some browser]" statements (like the 4.x browsers from major vendors 
did) or do we want to stick to supporting standards-based browsers?

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Randall Wood
rh...@ma...
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