That might be an issue if you're changing the stylesheet all the time (although even then browsers should still update the cached file if it's changed) but generally people are talking about updating it infrequently and irregularly. In that case it might take a while to filter down to everyone's cached stylesheet but it's not going to be a major problem. I know if I see a site with what looks like bad stylesheet I'm going to refresh which will generally fix the problem.
Jake On 19/9/2005, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was thinking this morning that we constantly tell people two things >about CSS, as in this wonderful presentation: > > http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/ (pages 9 and 10) > >we tell them > > a) it's more efficient because the style sheet only gets downloaded once! > >and then we tell them > > b) you can reformat your whole site just by changing the CSS file! > >and what, we just hope nobody notices that they contradict each other? > >In other words, what do you do to ensure that your newly-updated >stylesheet isn't cached? In the past, I've resorted to doing this: > > <!--#include virtual="link-rel.txt" --> > >where link-rel.txt contains > > <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/2005-09-18.css" type="text/css"> > >so that when changes are made, I can just change the include to refer >to "2005-09-19.css" and be sure there's no caching going on. Or, in >the case of a major browser-hanging bug, "2005-09-19-11-15AM.css" ... >------------------------------------------------------------ > "Have You Validated Your Code?" >John Horner (+612 / 02) 8333 3488 >Developer, ABC Kids Online http://www.abc.net.au/ >------------------------------------------------------------ >****************************************************** >The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help >****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
