November 10, 2001
I wanted to make the
I wanted to make the site less PHP-reliant for correct CSS display. It doesn't exactly advance the cause of standards-compliant layout if one has to resort to server-side scripting. Besides, the old @import trick (where certain styles are saved in a separate stylesheet and loaded using @import, causing them to be ignored by version 4 browsers) was working just as well. So this page is now the only one using the method described under 6 November. For the record, this is how the two approaches stack up in testing:

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