[thelist] Variable Stylesheets?

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hi There

If you're Apache/XSSI, then you can parse .css files as XSSI
and run it all through as variables there without worrying about
the extension.

Have a look at
http://evolt.org/article/thelist/17/4415/index.html#comment16681

(the main article there is my Perl translation of Adrian's system)

It does reduce maintenance, as now I only have one stylesheet
to maintain, rather than three. If I had the time, I'd put the print
stylesheet in there too...

Cheers
Martin


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Subject:  Re: [thelist] Variable Stylesheets?


> Here's a quicky sample: http://www.famnets.com/varcsstest.asp

hi lon

very nice technique

i've seen several ways of letting users choose styles (including one that
uses alternate style sheets, i.e. does not involve a trip back to the
server), but your method does seem to offer a great deal of flexibility

i would've thought that perhaps some older browsers might require the
linked style sheet to have the ".css" extension, but it does work in
windows netscape 4.04 and 4.75 (the only older css-capable browsers i've
got), so it would appear you've got something there


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