RE: @import

Hi,

> > What is the real difference between using '@import' for 
> external style
> > sheets or 'link rel='? They both do the same thing no? DO they rank
> > differently in the cascade, etc..??
> 

[snip]

> 
> Note: '@import' is not recognized by older browsers. But thus 
> you can link
> to a stylesheet created for older browsers, and then use 
> '@import' to include
> a CSS reference which contains styles supported only by newer 
> browsers (and
> you can waive on any browser detection etc.). The styles in 
> the imported sheet
> will supercede those in the linked one because they come 
> after the linked
> sheet in the code, while older browsers will just ignore the '@import'
> directive.

It's worth bearing in mind that this is is illegal in CSS2 (at least in my
understanding).

"CSS2 user agents must ignore any '@import' rule that occurs inside a block
or that doesn't precede all rule sets."
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#at-rules

Having said that, I use this hack myself.

Cheers,
Dave.

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