[Zope-dev] ZPT for CSS, anyone?

[Jamie Heilman]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Dylan Jay wrote:
> >disadvantage that the css is no longer valid once templated. ZPT of course
> >would be the solution if CSS was XML, but alas :( 
> 
> I think ZPT is just fine for generating CSS. It coudl do with a plan text 
> mode, like it has an HTML and XML mode, but apart fro mthat, it rocks :-)

Stylesheets should always be static documents, a dynamic stylesheet
defeats browser caching and destroys the advantages over just inlining
all the presentation markup.  If you want to have dynamic style, you
should use dynamic cascading & inclusion instructions, but the
stylesheets themselves should remain static.  As such, generating
style in ZPT is a complete waste of time and effort.  The File object
is a much better fit.

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