I haven't seen many problems with updating css files yet. As someone else pointed out most browsers check whether it's been updated or not. 99% of the time it all works fine.
What's worrying though are developments such as server-side CSS. While it can do some nice things it really defeats the purpose of CSS. Yet quite some people are advocating it. Shaun Inman for example: http://www.shauninman.com/plete/2005/08/css-constants If you use that you might as well go back to <font> tags and change those server-side all the time.... ;) - Marco On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 [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 > ****************************************************** > -- Marco van Hylckama Vlieg - Senior Web Developer http://www.i-marco.nl/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
