On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:35 PM, ajp <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> This STYLE discussion got me to run a few experiments - here's what I
> found (tested FF2+3, Chrome, IE6-8).
>
>  - Even though STYLE is supposed to live in the HEAD all browsers are
> happy to have as many style elements sprinkled around as you like. All
> the styles will be applied as you'd expect. There's no 'scoping' of
> styles (qv. HTML5).


In fact I'm not sure about that. I recently heard from a collegue about a
strange
limitation in IE that after a certain number of <style> tags (that number is
fixed), rules don't get applied anymore. I'm going to look it up again and
see if I can find any information about it.


>
>
> - All browsers allow the dom to inject Style elements anywhere you
> like (head or body) at any time; immediately all the new styles are
> applied.
>
> Having ajax bring in a new style with an html fragment is, I think,
> really useful. Although you have to remember that it's going to be
> applied globally, it means you don't have to remember up-front to
> include your (for example) pop-up styling in every page where you
> might use it.
>
> AJP
>
> >
>


-- 
Paul Bakaus
UI Architect
--
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