[thelist] Dynamically Generated External CSS file (fwd)

[Martin]

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Eric Engelmann wrote on 7/6/01 11:52 pm

><snip>But you could do it with basic server side stuff.</snip>
>
>--> Good point. But the externally linked dynamic file has the advantage of
>being able to run in *any* file (htm,asp,cf), on any server, without any
>sort of server side parsing. I'm sort of a stickler for pure static HTML
>where possible. :-)

But not pure static css, right?

>As for your querystring concept (which is quite ingenious I must say), 

Like most ingenuity, born out of pure laziness. I was testing multiple
stylesheet variants, and didn't want to have to do a separate set of
HTML files for each one (which can get quite tedious when you're
doing 20 stylesheets and testing with 3 files, even if it's a single
line change)

>you
>should be able to get the Referrer URL (Not sure that the external css file
>could detect the referrer and query string, but I assume it would) or by
>reading the cookie and do the dynamic style change via the external file
>method, too.

True.

Cheers
Martin

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