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Sep 02.2005

Is there any difference in speed or effectiveness between these two ways of using an external stylesheet?

[code]<style type=”text/css”><!–@import”/style.css”;–></style>[/code][code]<link href=”/style.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css”>[/code]

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@ray326Sep 02.2005 — No speed difference, some filtering effect because old browsers don't understand @import so you can hide the "spiffy" stuff from them using that.
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@KravvitzSep 02.2005 — If you want to do stylesheet switching, <link> is better.

I sometimes <link> a CSS file that @import's other CSS files to get the benefits of both.
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@the_treeauthorSep 02.2005 — [b]Ray[/b]: What type of stuff would you want to hide from older browsers? I can only imagine what you'd want to hide from newer browsers (i.e. obselete hacks).
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@KravvitzSep 02.2005 — I hope you don't mind my answering for you Ray.

In this case, he is referring to IE4 and NS4.

They don't fully support @import, so by using it you can hide CSS code from them.

http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/index.php

If you saw how IE4 and NS4 completely mangled a tableless layout before the CSS was hidden from them, you would understand why we do this.
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@ray326Sep 02.2005 — I hope you don't mind my answering for you Ray.[/QUOTE]Not at all.
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