Comments on: Beanies to Speedos

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:09:33 +0000

Yea Kaegie, I’m using MT Blacklist to prevent spam, which is now pretty obsolete. I don’t have a length limit for comments, but I can block people that leave long junk comments. ;) Eventually I’ll upgrade my MT install and make my comments more secure…eventually.

By: kaegie

kaegie — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:22:27 +0000

Sorry for such a big comment(junk) on your webpage “http://www.jasongraphix.com/archive/2005/02/beanies_to_spee.php”. I guess i need to tell you that you have not put a check of what a visitor is writing here and of what length is he doing so. I could be posting a link to my website(free advertisement), or putting text of foul/sexual nature etc.

Rest you can do the needful. Thanks.

By: hello

hello — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:18:54 +0000

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By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:25:19 +0000

Yea, I know how you feel. That’s the whole reason I started looking into CSS organization. There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of it. Trust me when I say that your CSS is a better example than a lot of others.

By: Jason Santa Maria

Jason Santa Maria — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:08:20 +0000

Man, I wish I felt as good about my CSS as you do. I feel like it just keeps bloating the more I need to add to it. It’s actually getting to be pretty high on my list of things to be tidied up :D

By: Justin Perkins

Justin Perkins — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:29:42 +0000

Take a gander at my CSS, I just threw together some fun server-side programming. It defaults to deliver an optimized version, but can show the formatted version if you ask nicely.

By: Justin Perkins

Justin Perkins — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:54:26 +0000

Sure I don’t have to put the CSS in server-side pages, but why not? It allows me to dynamically generate my CSS so I can add/remove rules if I detect different browsers. That wasn’t my original thought it why I would move my CSS to server-side pages, it was more about optimizing the CSS but still having nice comments in the code (for server-side viewing). There was a discussion somewhere about this last week, and that’s when I decided I’d move my CSS to server-side.

The other thing that got me thinking about server-side is all the site theft that’s being going on in the last couple weeks. If the CSSis server-side, then I can check the referring URL of the page and if the referring URL is not my own website then I can choose not to display the CSS at all. Sure there are ways around it, but folks who steal CSS are typically not the type of people who have technical knowledge of spoofing a referrer.

Keep in mind that I did not enable this feature, but I *can* turn it on by un-commenting one line of code.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:55:31 +0000

I guess it depends on the project, but I don't see the need to move all your css into server-side pages. If you wanted to though, I can see that it'd be pretty easy to just slap it into a web user control in .NET.

I actually just used Doug's IE5/Mac Band Pass filter technique for a site that was having box model issues. Oh, how I love IE5/Mac!

By: Justin Perkins

Justin Perkins — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:43:04 +0000

Nice, makes me want to organize my files a little better. I have actually been putting a little bit of time into my CSS files, adding some header information (for copyright) and such. I’m starting to move all my CSS files to a server-side script format (ASP.NET) so that I can take advantage of optimization while at the same time giving the ability for server-side comments.

I also was struggling with Firefox on Mac placing my navigation on one of my sites a little too high (I am using relative positioning with a top value set). Since I have no idea how or if there is a way to deliver CSS straight to this browser (via CSS hacks), I used server-side browser detection to deliver a little rule to put my navigation in the proper place the stubborn Firefox on Mac.

It was sorta funny to do this because I can’t help but think of the days of old when you would sniff for Netscape and deliver a custom page for these guys. However, I think appending one little rule at the end of my scripted CSS file for certain browsers is quite a bit better than delivering different web pages based on browser version.

Sorry I got a little off-topic, but I got to thinking about it because I’ve been looking at different folks CSS a lot lately to see how they were organizing their CSS. Of the various sites, I found myself browsing Doug’s (Stop Design) CSS quite frequently this past few days. I love all those little hacks to deliver CSS exclusively to the various flavors of IE, talk about attention to detail.