External CSS

Malte posted this at 15:31 — 21st January 2000.

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Hi,

I have a really big problem.

I'm working in a pretty large web design company.

We are developing all of our site 100% on Macintosh computers. A bad thing about this is that fonts do not have the same size on Macintosh and Windows browsers. (Fonts are smaller on the Mac, thats why I can hardly read what I'm wrting, too). Anyway, in order to make the sites Windows compatible we used to change all the pages after the design was completed. Since, the change you have to do is the same on all pages, we decided to have a single css file for all pages using this tag:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../parma.css">
It seemed to work perfectly on the Mac with both NS and IE and it also works on PC systems with NS. IE, though, seems to ignore the font size defined in the css file. What is really weird about this is that it doesnt ignore other properties like font-family and font-weight, so all text has standard size.

Unfortunately, the host of this particular site does not support SSI, so we had to include the style sheet into every page manually which was a lot of work and it will be again as soon as the sheet has to be changed.

Does anybody know a workaround, so IE will behave as expected?

Thank You,

Malte

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merlin posted this at 16:56 — 21st January 2000.

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this looks somehow like the problem i have (the CSS-discussion in here), just the other way round (my site looks fine with IE, but not with N).
i don't have a clue...

John Pollock posted this at 20:20 — 21st January 2000.

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Are you allowed to post the css file? We could take a look at it and see...

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Malte posted this at 14:13 — 24th January 2000.

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Sure,

here it is:

.parma {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal}
.parmaBold {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 10pt; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal}
.parmaSmall {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 9pt; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal}
.parmaSmallBold {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 9pt; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal}

.parma15ptline {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13pt; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal}
.parmasemiBold {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 10pt; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal}
.parmaTimes {font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal}
.parmaTimesBig {font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 12pt; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal}

Later,

Malte

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Malte posted this at 18:31 — 25th January 2000.

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Any fresh ideas?

Thanx,

Malte

John Pollock posted this at 22:20 — 26th January 2000.

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I'm not sure, it worked for me in IE5 on my PC...

I don't see anything wrong with the code or anything. I can't be sure since it doesn't mess up on me here.

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Malte posted this at 16:29 — 27th January 2000.

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Did you put it inside an external css-file.

We tested with IE 5.0 on NT and IE 4.5 on Macintosh.

Later,

Malte

John Pollock posted this at 18:21 — 27th January 2000.

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Oh.. I'm on Win98. The IE for NT and 98 as far as I know has its differences. I remember getting email from NT people about javascript properties that didn't work in the NT version- it might be the same with the external css..?

How do you call it, there are a few ways to call the css file, maybe one will work in NT.

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Jack Michaelson posted this at 09:59 — 28th January 2000.