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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