Sent by Geoff Sheridan on 19 September 2002 16:04
If you have a special reason for wanting to give IE4 a different
stylesheet to the <link>ed base styles then the method you describe
is not unreasonable. However:
<!-- for NN4 and all others -->
<link href="base.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- hides from NN4 only- IE 4 specific styles here -->
<link href="ie4plus.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all"/>
<!-- for IE5+, NN6, Moz, Opera et al. Overide IE4 specific styles here -->
<style type="text/css">@import("hightech.css");</style>
needs no script, the only potential problem is that standards
browsers will see all three sheets, so you'll have to ensure they
play together.
I would suggest that the base styles will probably be good enough for
IE4 anyway.
HTH
Geoff
>1. set the base styles using the link rel - for all browsers that
>have some CSS support.
>2. browser sniff to see if it's IE4
>3. If it's IE4, then do some makeshift stylesheet (or just leave it
>with the base styles) that makes it readable, and if not, then just
>write out the @import bit to handle everything else.
>4. in the noscript tag, write out the @import bit anyway, so that if
>you have javascript turned off it defaults to assuming you have a
>good enough browser to support it.
