Change to master.xsl to grant accessibility for Netscape 4.x (WAS: @ gets encoded within CDATA)

  Hi!

Here comes some comments on my last post. I opened my book and learnt that the 
bug (called Flash of Unstyled Content, FOUC) that causes the @import method 
to flash unstyled content is only present in IE5+ (not IE6 as I said). I also 
tried it out, noticing that it seems not to occur whenever a <link> tag is 
present anywhere in the same document.

My conclusion is that since there are other <link> tags present within 
master.xsl it's totally safe to use the @import method instead. It's even 
preferable since most modern CSS stuff causes a mess for Netscape Navigator 
4.x users. (If one however wants to server some CSS to NN4 too, then it's 
better to put those rules in a separate file.)

I'd actually suggest that you'd replace the CSS-<link> tag in the master.xsl 
files for all themes with the @import method, since I don't think you'll lose 
anything on it. And the few NN4 users still around will be able to surf the 
pages unstyled, instead of seeing an unsusable mess.

  cheers, Simon


On Friday 25 November 2005 22:29, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:
>   Hi!
>
> Oh yeah... I should have known... ;-)
> Well, thanks!
>
> Once I'm ready with this site I think I'm going to compile some kind for
> list of 'improvements' that I've done to the original 2-cols layout. By
> 'improvements' I mean changes that I've done to comply more closely with
> recommendations found in books on CSS and web standards (something for my
> thesis). Well, this 'improvement' didn't make the pages more standards
> compliant, but it makes the pages work in NS4 by turning CSS completely
> off. (The partial CSS support in NS4 otherwise just makes the page a mess.)
>
> An issue which I've read can be caused by using the @import method is that
> IE6 can show (flicker) the page unstyled before it's got the CSS-file
> loaded. This should however be avoided by having a <link> tag right before
> it, I hope this doesn't have to be a link to a CSS-file so that the <link>
> tag to the openid-server will suffice. I'll let you know if it didn't.
>
>   cheers, Simon
>
> On Thursday 24 November 2005 08:34, you wrote:
> > On 23.11.2005 17:52 Uhr, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:
> > >   Hi!
> > >
> > > Another problem which I didn't notice, even though one could figure it
> > > out from the last mail is that the variables don't get handled. The
> > > output is now:
> > > <style type="text/css" media="screen">
> > > /*<![CDATA[*/
> > > @import "{$webroot}themes/{$theme}/css/{$themeCss}";
> > > /*]]>*/
> > > </style>
> >
> > That's a simple xslt-"isssue" :) the curly brackets only works within
> > attributes. you have to write
> >
> >  @import "<xsl:value-of select="$webroot"/>themes/<xsl:value-of
> > select="$theme"/>/css/<xsl:value-of select="$themeCss"/>";
> >
> > chregu
> >
> > >   cheers, Simon
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