CSS size issuesNovember 25th, 2003

You know what I’m wondering just now after reading Worst CSS file ever Why would people want to crunch their CSS file in an era when people are switching really fast to broadband internet? Sure there are still 56k modem users in a lot of countries, but most of them are switching on a steady pace to broadband. I mean if you have a big site I understand but if you write your CSS in an usable way I hardly doubt it will be necessary to crunch the CSS codes.

Myself for example; my CSS is pretty long considering my simple layout but I have no problem loading this site on a 56k connection. I’ll have to look for a way to test how much it takes to load different sizes of CSS files.

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CSS navigation

In June I tried coding my own navigation bar done only with CSS. You can view a little example of a my attemp. Yesterday I spent the whole day hacking around with Suckerfish Dropdowns modding it here and there and adding some design to it. And I ended up trying out some pseudo classes, which I’ve never done before except the a:hover.

Having learned about the possibilities of pseudo classes I changed my failed attemp to a better CSS navigation This one works fine in Mozilla and IE with the exception that the last border is open in IE due that it doesn’t support the last child pseudo class.

When I’m in the mood again I’ll make an alternate CSS for my website and I’ll make use of some of the pseudo classes to reach some nice effects. Than I’ll have a non IE version of my design :-)

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