I figured out the answer to question 2.  I just had to add @NotStrict
annotation.  Questions 1 and 3 still perplex me.

On Mar 17, 3:45 pm, nogridbag <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) @external not working as expected
>
> The GWT doc states that if you mark a style as @external it won't be
> obfuscated and it doesn't need an associated method in the CssResource
> interface.
>
> So for instance:
> @external legacySelectorA, legacySelectorB;
> .obfuscated .legacySelectorA { .... }
>
> When I do this, the style: ".obfuscated .legacySelectorA" will simply
> be ignored and will not show up in the generated CSS.  All other
> styles that do not use an @external style appear fine in the CSS.
>
> There's no errors generated.
>
> I thought maybe I could only have one @external annotation in the CSS
> file so I moved all the external styles into one big annotation at the
> top of the file:
>
> @external abc, def, ghi, blah, blahblah, blahblahblah
>
> Putting them in one @external annotation at the top of the file
> generates errors so I'm assuming this should not be done.
>
> 2) How do I simply bundle a simple CSS file without obfuscating it?
>
> I thought I could simply create a CssResouce (without subclassing),
> and specify an annotation so that it's just treated as a static
> resource.
>
> Both the link (html) and stylesheet tag (in module descriptor) are
> deprecated according to the documentation.  I would like slowly
> transition CSS files to the new CssResource method without adding 50
> million @external annotations everywhere.  The styles are referenced
> all throughout our project as strings like addStyleName("my-style")
> and I don't want to break this functionality at the moment.
>
> 3) How can I have an "=" sign in a style?
>
> @if user.agent ie6 ie8 {
>         .my-style img { filter: alpha(opacity=20); } */} @elif user.agent 
> gecko gecko1_8 {
>
>         .my-style img { -moz-opacity: 0.2; }
>
> }
>
> The "=" sign in the IE specific string generates an error.
>
> --------------
>
> Finally, this isn't a question.  It's more of a general comment.  So
> far the experience using the CssResource has been pretty painful.
> Much of our CSS involves customizing the GXT library's stylesheet.
>
> So if you have a style like this:
> .my-tab-panel-header .x-tab-strip-top .x-tab-strip-active .x-tab-right
> span.x-tab-strip-text
> ...it quickly turns into annotation hell especially since I often have
> the same external styles referenced in two spots.  Here, we're
> slightly customizing the GXT tab panel adding three styles.
>
> @external .x-tab-strip-top, .x-tab-left
> .my-tab-panel-header .x-tab-strip-top .x-tab-left {
>         .. one CSS style
>
> }
>
> @external .x-tab-strip-top, .x-tab-strip-inner
> .my-tab-panel-header .x-tab-strip-top .x-tab-strip-inner {
>         .. one more CSS style
>
> }
>
> �...@external .x-tab-strip-top, .x-tab-strip-active, .x-tab-strip-inner
> .my-tab-panel-header .x-tab-strip-top .x-tab-strip-active .x-tab-strip-
> inner {
>         .. one more CSS style
>
> }
>
> I wind up having more @external annotations all over the document than
> I do actual CSS code.
>
> Thanks.

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