On 30 Nov 2008, 10:35 am, max wrote:
As it stands Freeway uses the three methods of referencing a CSS style. Thats inline, In the head and on a separate style sheet. and even though you as a designer specify an external style sheet, Freeway will still use the other two methods when it isn’t able to write to the external.
Thanks Max,
Hmmm… Good to know and an rather important point for those of us who are not afraid to get our hands dirty in the code… Wish I had known about this and I suppose my investigation of FW5 wasn’t thorough enough for my purposes. Perhaps my expectations were too high?
Most of the inline style that you see in your code are item specific so to actually place them in an external style sheet wouldn’t reduce the quantity of styles that much, and the ones in the head tend to be generated by actions like CSS menu.
I’m sure you already know the advantages of global stylesheets for layout and visual attributes so this is more my “record” for Softpress in case anyone reads this.
I suppose that depends on whether one’s sites are elaborate or not which would make a global stylesheet more effective and efficient for say updating a site’s overall look and feel. For smaller sites I suppose this isn’t a big deal but for sites with more pages and more content, updating could be really cumbersome.
I too would like to see most if not all the styles in an external style sheet but at present it’s not possible or practical.
I’ve been reading this thread
http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/40126
and realize there are many people who would like the ability to have global styles in an external stylesheet. I wonder how the IE6/7 stylesheet is generated? I haven’t figured out to look at that either…
There are actions that remove the inline styles and place them in the head (Weavers has one) which work well but in the end it all comes down to whether you feel this is absolutely imperative.
I actually do feel it is imperative to have global styles; not that I am opposed to inline styles… So I guess I’ll have to wait and cross my fingers that Softpress deems this practical to make possible. FW is a really sweet idea and it would be ideal if the Pro version was more flexible depending on one’s level and comfort with programming.
If you take the action and change the file name suffix to .fwaction it should work with later versions of Freeway
Thanks David. I’ll try switching the extension and I’ll give this action a try. Maybe it resolves my “issue”.
Either way, thanks to all of you who responded. Seems like a great community.
thatKeith, thank you for the explanation as well. Really appreciate it!
Deb
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