I shouldn't have implied it was a FarCry bug, sorry! I'm well aware it's a problem with IE's import handling. ;)
Thanks Brendan/Jeff/Geoff for the pointers on how to handle this more gracefully! Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Coughlin Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2005 4:41 AM To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: FarCry v2.3 Release - CSS on IE6.0Win bug Chris Bauer wrote: > I like the new CSS options for screen/print/etc, but I've found that the way > webskin:importCSS imports up the tree causes a problem in IE6.0 on Windows. > > IE simply aborts an import if anything's between the document and command > end .... @import ("blah.css") <--here--> ; Due to the FOUC bug it is suggested to never use @import when calling external stylesheets. Read on for more. ----------- The code in importCSS.cfm is using the correct method. The problem lies in your version of Internet Explorer where once again Microsoft has decided to ignore the rules set forth by W3C for CSS2 (yet MS claims that they meet all of the requirements). What you're seeing in IE is called Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) where you see the page unstyled and then it gets the style. The solution is to use the <link> tag to call your stylesheets. "Wait!" you say. What if I want to use the well-known @import hack. (This css hack allows you to load a simple/basic stylesheet (ex: basic.css) file for older browsers and then use the @import to load the stylesheets for more advanced browsers (older browsers ignore @import because they don't know what to do with it)). Unfortunately this leaves you with some messy code, however it does work. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ImportHack OR http://www.ericmeyeroncss.com/bonus/trick-hide.html The suggested answer is to use a more accepted stylesheet hack where you use <link> tags to call your external stylesheets. When you want older browsers to ignore them just add multiple media types separated by commas (example: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="projection, screen" href="/css/advanced.css" />). You can easily do this in Farcry (v2.3 or greater) by selecting multiple media types for your dmCSS (For PC hold down ctrl+click in the multi-select box). Then when calling the custom tag importCSS from your .cfm file set the value for the attribute 'type' to "link" (example: <skin:importCSS type="link">). -------- Please note that the above method is a suggestion (a css hack). Farcry is outputting the code correctly, but until browsers (such as IE) want to support CSS properly it is suggested to continue using the <link> tag. If people want to debate me on the above suggested css hack I am always open to learning more css options :) -Jeff C. --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
