IE 5.2 on Mac - no stylesheet??

[MasonC]

My site pages look ok in most browsers, including Safari on
the Mac. With Mac's IE 5.2 the stylesheet is ignored.

I've tried both @import and <Link. Any suggestions?

Second question: assuming I don't want to add styles
below the @import, is there any advantage in using it?
How choose between @import and <Link ??

Mason C

[Lauri Raittila]

In article MasonC wrote:

My site pages look ok in most browsers, including Safari on
the Mac. With Mac's IE 5.2 the stylesheet is ignored.
URL?
I've tried both @import and <Link. Any suggestions?
What syntax. IIRC, it is meaningful at least with first
Second question: assuming I don't want to add styles
below the @import, is there any advantage in using it?
IE3 and IE4 may not understand it. Nobody should use them anyway, so not
big advantage. I have personally never useed it, as IE4 has surprisingly
good ability to ignore stuff it doesn't know (compared to NN4...)
How choose between @import and <Link ??

Which happens to work better/worse on browsers you care. Anyway, avoid
situation where you have @import in external stylesheet, as it makes
loading it slower, as there is more http requests needed to get it.

(very often people put their "advanged" css to this way, and cause flash
of suboptimally styled content...)

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[Eifion]

Have you been consistent with your capitalization? IE5 Mac is one of the
few (the only?) browser that is case sensitive when it comes to
stylesheets, so a class defined as .Important (say) won't show if you
include it as style="importan t"

eifion

MasonC wrote:

My site pages look ok in most browsers, including Safari on
the Mac. With Mac's IE 5.2 the stylesheet is ignored.

I've tried both @import and <Link. Any suggestions?

Second question: assuming I don't want to add styles
below the @import, is there any advantage in using it?
How choose between @import and <Link ??

Mason C

[Eifion]

or class="importan t" even..... (oops)
Eifion wrote:

Have you been consistent with your capitalization? IE5 Mac is one of the
few (the only?) browser that is case sensitive when it comes to
stylesheets, so a class defined as .Important (say) won't show if you
include it as style="importan t"

eifion

] Mason C

[Brian]

MasonC wrote:

My site pages look ok in most browsers, including Safari on the Mac.
With Mac's IE 5.2 the stylesheet is ignored.

I've tried both @import
Mac IE 5.x is very fussy about the syntax of import statements. What is
the exact @import statement you're using?
assuming I don't want to add styles below the @import, is there any
advantage in using it?
@import hides styles from incapable browsers (NN 4.x, IE 4.x, etc.).
Linked stylesheets may or may not be hidden, depending on the syntax.
How choose between @import and <Link ??

What are you specific goals?

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[MasonC]

On Mon, 03 May 2004 00:50:34 GMT, Brian <us*****@juliet remblay.com.inv alid> wrote:

MasonC wrote:

My site pages look ok in most browsers, including Safari on the Mac.
With Mac's IE 5.2 the stylesheet is ignored.

I've tried both @import

Mac IE 5.x is very fussy about the syntax of import statements. What is
the exact @import statement you're using?

assuming I don't want to add styles below the @import, is there any
advantage in using it?

@import hides styles from incapable browsers (NN 4.x, IE 4.x, etc.).
Linked stylesheets may or may not be hidden, depending on the syntax.

How choose between @import and <Link ??

What are you specific goals?

OK in as many *modern* browsers as practical. I test in Opera
MSIE 6, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari(mac), and IE5.2(mac)

All are ok except mac's IE5.2 ignores my stylesheet imported
by:

<STYLE type="text/css"> @import url(1main1.css) </STYLE>

I tried <LINK REL="stylesheet " TYPE="text/css" HREF="1main1.cs s">

with the same result: ignored by mac's IE5.2

I gather that "@import" may be the better choice so as to stay out
of trouble with older browsers. The pages are readable unstyled, but
sure not "pretty."

FYI: http://masonc.home.netcom.com

Thank you, Lauri, Eifion, and Bryan

Mason C

[Eric A. Meyer]

In article <7r************ *************** *****@4ax.com>,
MasonC <ma****@ix.netc om.xyz.com> wrote:

All are ok except mac's IE5.2 ignores my stylesheet imported
by:

<STYLE type="text/css"> @import url(1main1.css) </STYLE>

I tried <LINK REL="stylesheet " TYPE="text/css" HREF="1main1.cs s">

with the same result: ignored by mac's IE5.2

The problem is that you've wrapped the whols style sheet in "@media
screen". IE/Mac ignores @media blocks, as documented at
<http://w3development.d e/css/hide_css_from_b rowsers/media/>.

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[MasonC]

On Mon, 03 May 2004 13:20:34 GMT, "Eric A. Meyer" <er**@meyerweb. com> wrote:

In article <7r************ *************** *****@4ax.com>,
MasonC <ma****@ix.netc om.xyz.com> wrote:

All are ok except mac's IE5.2 ignores my stylesheet imported
by:

<STYLE type="text/css"> @import url(1main1.css) </STYLE>

I tried <LINK REL="stylesheet " TYPE="text/css" HREF="1main1.cs s">

with the same result: ignored by mac's IE5.2

The problem is that you've wrapped the whols style sheet in "@media
screen". IE/Mac ignores @media blocks, as documented at
<http://w3development.d e/css/hide_css_from_b rowsers/media/>.

Thank you ! :-))

Mason C

[Brian]

MasonC wrote:

All are ok except mac's IE5.2 ignores my stylesheet imported
by:

<STYLE type="text/css"> @import url(1main1.css) </STYLE>

There are several possible syntaxes, all permissable according to the
standard, but IE/Mac 5.x only understands some of them. Try

@import "main1.css" ;

Also note Eric Meyer's helpful advice re: @media rules. (That's a very
convenient way to hide rules only from Mac IE.)

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[kchayka]

Brian wrote:

@media rules. (That's a very
convenient way to hide rules only from Mac IE.)

FYI, MacIE is not the only browser that doesn't support @media rules.
iCab and pre-4.5 OmniWeb don't for sure, maybe other browsers don't, either.

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