Comments on: Development tip: color coding UI by deployment platform

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By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:49:23 +0000

Yes, it seems to be a reoccurring theme for me lately… the balance between ease of development versus client performance. (i.e. Cutting the fat)

I think anything under a couple of kilobytes would be acceptable… otherwise an external CSS is much better!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:17:08 +0000

nice idea Lee, yours is a simpler solution, however it does mean delivering redundant CSS to the client – not that it would be a big problem if the overrides were nice and compact.

By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:33:05 +0000

Great idea, I should implement this on a few of the sites that I have developed.

An alternative way to the CSS include could be to use the hostname in the class (or ID) of the body tag.

e.g.

Then you can use a single CSS file for the styles.

i.e. body.localhost {background-color:red;}