Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Multiple style sheets

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

Currently, the {STYLE} tag will print
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="http://ww.mywebsite.com/themes/Default/style.css" type="text/css" />

What I was thinking is allowing the OPTION to replace the relative link
with the <style></style>. This would only need implementation if their are
circumstances in which the style sheet needs preprocessing (eg to replace
{THEME_DIRECTORY} tags) before it hits the theme.

As you can guess, you could not preprocess a linked file because it would
have to be written on the fly (ewww).

Matt

> I like the implementation.  This way if you have 2 browsers who can
> share a style sheet you don't have to make one for "browser a" and one
> for "browser b".  I have a question though...does it still relative link
> the style sheet or are you writing it to the {STYLE} variable as a
> <style></style>?  If you relative link to the file, most browsers seem
> to read this file only once and cache it.  But if it is included as a
> <style> tag, the browser is forced to get this on every page hit.  Might
> be something to talk about?
>
> Adam
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> There is new code in CVS to support multiple style sheets. Here is how
>> it works.
>>
>> There is a new file in the theme named browsers.txt. It contains a
>> listing of perl search strings and the appropiate style sheet to use.
>> For example:
>>
>> Opera::opera.css
>> MSIE 5.5::explorer.css
>> Netscape6::netscape.css
>>
>> The first part before the double colons is the perl search (pretty
>> basic in this example). Afterwards is the name of the style sheet to
>> load INSTEAD of style.css if the search is TRUE.
>>
>> Layout then:
>> 1) checks for the existance of the browser.txt file.
>> 2) if true, layout reads the file and parses the list
>> 3) if the browser is found AND if the style sheet exists, layout puts
>> the address of the style sheet in the {STYLE} tag
>> 4) if no conditions are met successfully and if style.css exists, the
>> {STYLE} tag is set to the style.css address.
>> 5) if none of the conditions are met, {STYLE} is never initialized.
>>
>> Note that I removed the <link> tag and it is now echoed along with the
>> address.
>>
>> I could also add a parameter to the browser.txt files so that {STYLE}
>> will echo the entire style sheet instead of merely linking to it. That
>> would allow for preprocessing of the style sheet before it hits the
>> theme.
>>
>> Let me know what you think and I will update the documentation if all
>> is kewl.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> 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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Matthew McNaney
Internet Systems Architect
Electronic Student Services
Email: ma...@tu...
URL: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
Phone: 828-262-6493
ICQ: 141057403