[Seaside] Re: CSS/JS libs

[rrobbes]

Avi Bryant writes: 

> 
> On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:37 PM, rrobbes wrote: 
> 
>> Hi Avi,
>> Would this have any incidence on CSSs generated dynamically ?
>> I have for example some components whose font size
>> vary roughly with their nesting level in the component tree.
>> Romain
> 
> I don't think it's generally a good idea to generate CSS dynamically.  
> It's friendlier to both your designers (in terms of editing) and your 
> browser (in terms of caching) to keep the CSS static.  What I would do in 
> your case is have dynamic class attributes instead - you can have a 
> surrounding div around your components whose class indicates the nesting 
> level, and then several versions of the styles scoped to that class: 
> 
> .root .foo {/* big font*/}
> .nested .foo {/*small font*/}
> .deeply-nested .foo {/* tiny font */} 
> 

That should be a better solution indeed. We have indeed been bitted by
the online css editor a few times, as it overwrited our code a few times ... 


> Avi 
> 
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