Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Thierry Koblentz wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Guess I shouldn't say this, but, FWIW: It is good to have options and know how they work an/or how to make them work. However, I don't see much point in switching hacking-strategy if one has a working and well-tested method in place. For

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-26 Thread Barney Carroll
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: The IE-bug that makes the '@import hack' work, also prevents proper use of attributes on a standardized property. This means it put limitations on future use of same property, and will continue to do so for as long as our support for those same buggers is a necessary part

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Barney Carroll wrote: The syntax for @import is pretty unique for CSS, to be fair to IE (we're always so patronising). Well, @import has been around for a while... It has also been used as a filter to block out old browsers, for years - without the media-attribute. I google searched the

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-26 Thread Chris Ovenden
Some may disagree, but I feel * html is completely safe and future-proof. We know precisely which browsers it hits, and their behaviour is frozen forevermore. On 1/26/07, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no such thing as a 'safe bug/hack', only some that are a bit safer than

[css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack (was: How to Filter Out Explorer 7 and Below)

2007-01-25 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I believe I found a small issue with this. It turns out that IE returns a 404 error when I fetch: http://www.remoteserver.invalid/css/url(file.css) screen (PHP on Windows). while the following loads the sheet just fine: http://localhost/css/url(file.css) screen (WAMP) Any fix for that or

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-25 Thread ~davidLaakso
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I believe I found a small issue with this. It turns out that IE returns a 404 error when I fetch: http://www.remoteserver.invalid/css/url(file.css) screen (PHP on Windows). while the following loads the sheet just fine: http://localhost/css/url(file.css) screen

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-25 Thread Thierry Koblentz
~davidLaakso wrote: It turns out that IE returns a 404 error when I fetch: http://www.remoteserver.invalid/css/url(file.css) screen (PHP on Windows). while the following loads the sheet just fine: http://localhost/css/url(file.css) screen (WAMP) Any fix for that or should I go back to

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-25 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Thierry Koblentz wrote: The issue is that the remote server doesn't seem to serve the file to IE. The file exists but IE cannot get to it as it does locally. As a side note, the hack is not in the file format, as other browsers download that weird file just the same. I believe it is a server

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-25 Thread bj
Hey Thierry, I don't think it is a problem with my implementation, as I said it is working fine on my local server. The issue is that the remote server doesn't seem to serve the file to IE. The file exists but IE cannot get to it as it does locally. It's possible that your server has to be set

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-25 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I don't think it is a problem with my implementation, as I said it is working fine on my local server. The issue is that the remote server doesn't seem to serve the file to IE. The file exists but IE cannot get to it as it does locally. It's possible that your server has to be set to

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-25 Thread ~davidLaakso
Thierry Koblentz wrote: To make sure, I changed the MIME type on my local IIS server, and sure enough IE loaded the file. I can't change this on the remote server myself, I hope my WHC will agree to do it. I wanted people to know about this as it can make the experience of switching from CC

Re: [css-d] Follow up/heads-up on url(.css) screen hack

2007-01-25 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Thierry Koblentz wrote: To make sure, I changed the MIME type on my local IIS server, and sure enough IE loaded the file. I can't change this on the remote server myself, I hope my WHC will agree to do it. I wanted people to know about this as it can make the experience of switching from