Early results on injecting style sheets into DOM

[Jacob Farber]

Actually, I should revise:  other than the reset, the order of the files
doesnt matter. And the reset file is a nicety anyways.


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Jacob Farber <jacob.farber at gmail.com>wrote:

> From what I've seen, as long as our stylesheets exist in the document they
> operate as intended. The dependencies are not in the order but rather that
> they exist at all.
> Jacob
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Antranig Basman <antranig at caret.cam.ac.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> Eli - this is really fantastically useful research, and addresses a number
>> of
>> crucial issues that we are worried about. It, correct me if I am wrong,
>> looks
>> "a bit grim" for any possibly "subtle" usage of CSS in this model - is it
>> fair to say that one must expect that the effects of CSS injection to be
>> treated as if they were essentially equivalent to styling rules with
>> !important written on them? Or is it even more complex than that.
>>
>> Jacob - does it look like our proposed skinning system will be able to
>> function
>> in such an environment, or will we have to insist that any users of our
>> style of ruleset have all of their CSS sheets physically written into the
>> document by the server?
>>
>> Eli - would it be possible to detect if there is any difference in
>> behaviour
>> from the @import versus the <link style of referencing CSS?
>>
>> Look forward to the results of your future testing. Should we create an
>> area
>> in our Confluence where we can have a "quirksMode" like "scoreboard" of
>> the
>> different browsers under different situations?
>>
>> Marvellous stuff,
>> Boz.
>>
>>
>> Eli Cochran wrote:
>> >
>> > Background:
>> > The skinning team is looking at ways to inject style sheets into DOM at
>> run-time as a
>> > way to transform pages that we don't know very much about.
>> >
>> > Early results:
>> > I'm still in the midst of my tests on injecting CSS style sheets into
>> the head using
>> > Javascript.
>> >
>> > The good news is that it works on FF3 and Safari3 on the Mac and FF3,
>> IE6 and IE7 on
>> > Windows. After the page has loaded you can inject a style sheets into
>> the HEAD and the
>> > style changes are reflected in the DOM. Sweet!
>> >
>> > The bad news is that only FF3 and Safari seem to respect the CSS
>> hierarchy. Inject a
>> > style sheet that sets your text to blue after all the other style sheets
>> in the HEAD,
>> > and your text changes to blue, and then if you inject a style sheet that
>> changes all the
>> > text to red before all the style sheets in the HEAD, your text stays
>> blue. Which is as
>> > it should be, since the blue sheet still comes after the red sheet in
>> the hierarchy.
>> > Happiness!
>> >
>> > But under the IEs if you follow the same steps, all your text turns red.
>> Whatever styles
>> > get injected last, win, even if they were injected higher up in the
>> hierarchy. Sadness!
>> >
>> > Interestingly, if you inspect the DOM as reported to Debugbar from IE,
>> the stylesheets
>> > are getting loaded into the DOM in the correct order, they just aren't
>> being parsed
>> > correctly.
>> >
>> > This is still a technique that may be useful to us, but one of the
>> things that we could
>> > not do is inject a CSS reset before all the other style sheets. We would
>> then crush any
>> > subsequent styling.
>> >
>> > I still want to test what happens if I inject stylesheets after the HEAD
>> loads but
>> > before the BODY loads and a few other things.
>> >
>> > More to come...
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>
>
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> Jacob Farber
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>
>


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Jacob Farber
University of Toronto - ATRC
Tel: (416) 946-3002
www.fluidproject.org
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