John,
There's no need for a server-side include to do this. Just use a linked
stylesheet to import the real stylesheet:
i.e. in your html pages:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" title="Default"
href="screen.css">
in screen.css:
@import url("nav.css");
@import url("main.css");
...
This has the additional benefit of excluding NS4.
cheers,
Geoff
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> Subject: [WSG] The Big Lie about CSS
>
>
> 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" ...
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