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Moin,
On Friday 09 February 2007 00:25:19 Nick Jenkins wrote:
That's six CSS files for most desktop browsers, and seven if you're using IE.
Actually just four and five, respectively. The media-specific stylesheets will probably not be loaded by clients that aren't using that medium.
I can only speak to what Firefox and IE are actually doing.
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I.e. both browsers fetch all 3 media variant stylesheets, at least on a full refresh.
... and exactly why both browsers feel the need to load a media="handheld" stylesheet whilst running on a distinctly non-handheld device is a question that's probably best directed at the authors of those browsers ;-)
Have you filed bug reports with them? :)
For Firefox: See: "Bug 79021 - All stylesheets are loaded regardless of rendering media" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79021 [Open 5.5 years, no activity in past 3.5 years]
I didn't want to sound rude, just making sure it's actually filed as bug :) Maybe someone should reply to this bug report along the lines of "this wastes a lot of bandwidth on sites like wikipedia"
For IE: Don't care - reporting bugs to MS is an exercise in pain and frustration, involving having to provide your credit card details to do their QA for them on their products (and then they say "sorry, we can't help" - completely useless), or if you use the web feedback forms they just ignore you for 9 years (at which point they discontinue the product) even though it was clearly a 1-line trivial fix ... or at least these have been *my* experiences reporting bugs to MS. And as the piece-de-resistance, their IE bug database is now closed ( https://connect.microsoft.com/IE ) to both reads and writes. Nope - I'm leaving this one to a masochist.
I completely understand. You might as well talk to the trees. At least the wind makes them sway understandingly.
Just for a laugh I tried the page you gave, and it redirects you to:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/iefaq.mspx
And when you click there on "Internet Explorer Support", it goes to:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/tab2
Which can not be found. I rest my case.
Best wishes,
Tels
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