dynamic CSS not Working on Mac

actraiser

I wrote a stylesheet editor for some intranet system of a customer. the original styles.css was renamed to styles.php and the data of the dynamic classes are being fetched from the database now, e.g.:

.style_static {
color: #ffaaff
}

.style_dynamic {
color: <?php fetch(style,color);?>
}

This seems to work allright and is being displayed on all windows/unix-based browsers without problem.
However, the customer uses a few Macs and said that only the static styles are being displayed but not the dynamic ones no matter if using IE or Netscape.

Despite us, they use Apache for Windows as webserver by the way (we use Apache on freeBbs).

Anyone can make sense out of that ?

Greets

-act

Anon

I've done this and it works okay.

Here is the code

index.php:

<head>
<?
//start browser check
if((ereg("Nav", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) || (ereg("Gold", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) || (ereg("X11", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) || (ereg("Mozilla", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) || (ereg("Netscape", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) AND (!ereg("MSIE", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")))) $browser = "ns";
elseif(ereg("MSIE", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) $browser = "ie";
else $browser = "Other";
//end browser check

if ($browser == "ie")
{
echo ("<style>\n");
echo ("\n\n");
echo ("</style>\n");
}
else
{
echo ("<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style.php' />\n");
}
?>

<center>
<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='700'>
<tr>
<td width='10'>HELLO</td>
</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>

</body>

style.php

<?
$style_td_fontsize = ("20px");
$style_body_background = ("#aa00aa");
?>

body { background:<? echo $style_body_background; ?>; }
A { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; }
A:hover { color: #ff9900; text-decoration : none; }
td { font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial; font-size: <? echo $style_td_fontsize; ?>; color: #ffffff; }

I do a browser check because Macs come bundled with Netscape 4.6 which doesn't like external style sheets, only inline ones so unless users upgrade, they will probably have NS 4.6.

The variable in the stylesheet do not come from a database but they could easily be substituted for values that do.

This won't be effected by your server settings or anything like that, it will be more of a client side issue. If you are follow this and it still doesn't work I would suggest that the data that's coming from the database is checked.

One thing I did notice in your code was that you didn't complete the style definition with a ";" at the end of it. I'm not sure that this will have an effect but it would be good practice to do so.

Hope this helps

Anon

Since Mac IE 5.0 is supposedly the "best" implementation of CSS out there, then the problem is likely that the user is using the wrong browser.