230989 - dynamic writing of frame does NOT set stylesheet

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[john russell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040113

When a frame is rewritten and the html in the new frame contains
a pointer to a stylesheet, that stylesheet is not used.  If the
new page has style element it is used correctly! There seems to 
be problem executing the link element !!
NOTE: devzone is setup only to display demo file that exhibits this bug!


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.access  home.cogeco.ca/~devzone/
2.press the button in right frame to rewrite the left frame.
3.

Actual Results:  
left frame displays in green, responding to the 
style element rule in the dynamic page!

Expected Results:  
left frame should be in blue if it correctly
responded to the cascaded stylesheet link.

Could this be related to problem that also prevents
displaying the frame source of a dynamically written file???

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

stylesheet is served as text/plain, so Mozilla correctly decides it's not a CSS
sheet and ignores it. It should be served as text/css.

Comment 2

[john russell]

Even on local (no server) version the stylesheet is 
not read either. i had wanted to send a zip file for
testing but noted that some testers objected to that
way as well ... one can download the files from the
website and note that stylesheets are not respected
i will also add a .htaccess to hopefully correct server
bad configuration issue as well .

Comment 3

[john russell]

from original sender
i have included an .htaccess file that forces server to 
send correct mimetype for .css files.
 This was tested by verifying the css
thru the w3.org jigsaw css validator which uses mimetype 
correctly instead of extension [as opera/msie do]...
However the problem still exists ... the stylesheet which
sets a blue background is not read and the existing style
element background is used instead...  of course i can 
build my dynamic files to have a style element but this 
leads to maintenence issues which style sheets are meant
to do away with.  Why no workee ... oh yeah netscape 4.7 
does work ok ;-[  ;-[  but not net 6/7, moz or firebird!

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, the problem here is that the dynamically created content uses a
relative stylesheet url, and this is resolved relative to the URL of the
content, which is a javascript: url.  So it simply doesn't point at the sheet on
the server.

Setting dep on bug 49312 

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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