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Why does CSS occasionally not show?
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:39 pm
by aschlosberg
I have a client that is <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> off that one of their pages didn't render correctly when the CSS did not download/activate. We have all seen this countless times (I've even seen it on Facebook) and know that it is an irregularity and not the norm but they won't accept that.
How do I explain to them what is going on? Is it just that the connection dropped out between downloading HTML and downloading CSS?
Re: Why does CSS occasionally not show?
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:45 pm
by jayshields
Could be a load of things. Probably browser related rather than connection related. I've had rendering issues with CSS forever, not just the browser forgetting to use the CSS, but rendering the same element in a different place randomly and then working fine on refresh.
Re: Why does CSS occasionally not show?
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:02 pm
by JellyFish
Strange I don't think I've ever experienced something like this. At least, not in a long time.
Re: Why does CSS occasionally not show?
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:03 pm
by califdon
I've experienced it many times, and it always turned out to be my misunderstanding of how to code CSS. I thought it wasn't, a lot of times, but in the end, it was always my fault.
Re: Why does CSS occasionally not show?
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:31 am
by Chris Corbyn
Well, if Apache is having issues and it fails to serve the CSS then this would happen. I've seen it happen on numerous sites (yes, including facebook) when they've been running at a crawling speed.
Is the server up to snuff?
Re: Why does CSS occasionally not show?
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:51 am
by aschlosberg
I told them to just refresh the page and they would see that it wouldn't happen again. I think their internet connection had some issues at the time.
Re: Why does CSS occasionally not show?
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:09 pm
by Apollo
califdon wrote:I've experienced it many times, and it always turned out to be my misunderstanding of how to code CSS. I thought it wasn't, a lot of times, but in the end, it was always my fault.
Even in cases where the css
does show up after a refresh?
Re: Why does CSS occasionally not show?
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:45 pm
by califdon
Apollo wrote:califdon wrote:I've experienced it many times, and it always turned out to be my misunderstanding of how to code CSS. I thought it wasn't, a lot of times, but in the end, it was always my fault.
Even in cases where the css
does show up after a refresh?
In my own case, I haven't experienced that. Maybe I am just a worse coder than some of you guys (undoubtedly true!). And I don't do really complex sites, nor really high volume sites. So my experience may be of limited value.
P.S. I've always admired your avatar! Tell me, are those really tatoos?
