> Has anyone ever toyed with this idea before and if so what were the > results???
I'm amazed how people seem to suddenly get this "A-HA!" moment. In the last few months I've read various forum discussions, blog entries and articles about "wouldn't it be great to create your CSS via PHP/ASP/etc?" I did something like this about 4 years ago. It worked pretty fine, but the main problem is that you risk putting extra strain on the server, as the dynamic stylesheet needs to be created at every single request, and can't be cached on the user's machine. So any bandwidth-saving benefits that the separation of content and presentation might have go up in smoke. You can limit the damage slightly by having a main, static stylesheet that contains the bulk of styling and can be cached, and a second minimal one for the few dynamic properties you want to have. At least this way only the small one needs to be generated and sent to the browser. Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster External Relations Division Faraday House University of Salford Greater Manchester M5 4WT Tel: +44 (0) 161 295 4779 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] webteam: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.salford.ac.uk A GREATER MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
