The Case of the Persistent Stylesheet

Right, I’m flummoxed. Leon is suffering from some sort of bizarre system-wide stylesheet persistence problem. No matter what he does in terms of refreshing, clearing his cache and the like, both IE and Mozilla on his OS9 machine load the previous stylesheet for this site. And by previous, I mean the one that is no longer on the server, and therefore isn’t available for his browser to download. This is annoying, because I can’t see what I can do about it — it’s not a glitch with the new stylesheet that’s causing the problem, it’s the fact that the new stylesheet doesn’t exist as far as Leon’s computer is concerned.

Maybe changing from a linked stylesheet to using @import will do the trick, but that will cause different problems for other people. Hmmn.

Update: changing the name of the stylesheet to cachethisbitch.css worked a treat. Which just goes to show that swearing at computers really does work. And that the Big Issue office must be behind some cacheproxydoodah that I know nothing about. Meanwhile, another regular reader writes to say of the new look, ‘i don’t like it and it makes my eyes hurt… i wish i had leon’s computer.’ Watch this space for a new new look a bit like the old look but with new bits!

Posted at 11am on 20/03/03 by Jack Mottram to the site news category.
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