Can have a CSS read by Safari only?

[shaunacg]

Hi,

Is there anyway I can have a CSS stylesheet that is read only by the Safari browser, but not by any other browsers? Or atleast not by any Windows browsers?

Thanks

 

[jwenting]

no. Stylesheets are determined by medium not browser (that is, if the browser understands medium-specific stylesheets and doesn't just pick one at random from the supplied ones).

 

[Vragabond]

Try consulting this:

http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/

Look if there is a specific hack just for Safari. But as far as I know, Safari renders CSS the same as Mozilla and Opera for Windows, so there shouldn't be a need for a special Safari stylesheet.

 

[ThomasJSmart]

you can use a javascript/php/asp/cfm script to check the browser first and then link the appropriate stylesheet

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[ThomasJSmart]

on second thoughts not sure you can do it with php/asp/cfm but its possible with javascript.

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[shaunacg]

Ok, great I'll try it with javascript then. It's funny the problem I need to fix only exists on Safari and not Opera or Mozilla.
Thanks.

 

[davidmenges]

Note: I believe Safari does not handle CSS-P (positioning) correctly - at least the version that comes with MacOS 10.2 (?), and I don't believe there is a work-around. Apparently there is a newer Safari but it requires the latest MacOS (10.3?); I don't know if it handles CSS-P correctly.

The symptom I've seen is text on top of text. Microsoft's Outlook Web Access suffers from this, as do a handful of other webs I've browsed to.

 

[ThomasJSmart]

microsoft pages are usually quite unfriendly to opera and safari browsers anyway....

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[Vragabond]

I have created a couple of CSS positioned websites and all look perfectly ok in IE6, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and Safari. I had to apply a couple of hacks for IE6 but never for Safari. Maybe it is not the browser that is at fault here but the code...

 

[davidmenges]

If you google you will find information about Safari CSS bugs. Again, they may be fixed in the latest Safari, but that requires the latest MacOS, which I haven't bought yet.

 

[manarth]

Server-Side (PHP/ASP/etc)
The Safari U-A string is given on the Safari Developer Site.

2. What is the Safari user-agent string?

The complete Safari user-agent string is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/XX (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/YY

...where XX is the version of Apple's web technology used by Safari and YY is the version of the Safari application.

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