[Zope] best practice, CSS Stylesheets

[Peter Bengtsson]

Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Peter Bengtsson schrieb:
>>
>>
>> John Huttley wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> What is the best way of handling CSS?
>>> I've looked at ZStylesheets, but it is buggy and uses depreciated 
>>> functions that will not be available in 2.10.
>>>
>> I recommend a DTML Document as an upgrade to File objects.
>> If you use DTML you can
>> a) easily set some custom cache headers in the css
> 
> Or use a cache manager :-)
true

> 
>> b) refer to images by a dynamic URL to the imagefolder. *
>>
>> * example:
>> #body { background:#fff url(<dtml-var images url>/bg.png); }
>>
> Which runs against (a) because if you aggressive cache
> (which is a good idea) you shouldn't have dynamic elements
> in it.
You mustn't use any dtml-if or other crap like that because then, as you 
say Tino, you lose the ability cache the css file.

> 
> I believe file objects are good enough and you could
> probably split the CSS across some files to get the
> dynamics w/o loosing performance.
> 
> ++Tino
> 

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