Comments on: Safari Tip 1: Reloading Stylesheets

By: Steve Root

Steve Root — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:57:24 +0000

If only so many sites didn’t insist on using ridiculously small
fonts, …. 10 points is barely adequate for a newspaper. 12 points is an
absolute minimum for readable web sites, and larger fonts are better.)
I thought it was best practise to specify no font sizes in CSS? Just relying on the relatively sized tags (heading and p) tags. That way users can choose a font size to suit their hardware and personal needs and your layout will always be readable.

By: Anders

Anders — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:42:41 +0000

I have activated Safari debug meny and here you can control a lot of feture as cache and here i have a button to clear style an other, then
safari have to reload.

Or do i have to missunderstand the problem…
// Anders

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:05:07 +0000

Here’s some info:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

You also have the option of creating a separate user account, of course.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:31:10 +0000

Elliotte… I’m always bumping up against Safari’s overzealous chaching issues too! (I guess it’s the price we pay for fast rendering, but as a dev, it’s a pain)

Here’s a little Safari tip that works for me… Under the Safari menu, you’ll see an item named ‘Empty Cache…’. There’s even a keyboard shortcut… command-option-e. For me this usually flushes cached css and js. Next time you reload, it should refetch the css and js files. Hope it works for you.

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:29:58 +0000

Can I run two profiles simultaneously? i.e. as if they were two different browsers? I rely on having Firefox open for all sorts of tasks just to get my work done. That’s a big reason I use Safari, so I can have one browser for testing and one just for using.

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:16:09 +0000

Why not set up two Firefox profiles, one for regular use and one for development? Leave the development one as vanilla as possible.

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:40:42 +0000

Yes. I see that myself in Firefox. It’s not just a IE issue. I was just about to write a three-paragraph response detailing exaclty what’s happening there and why and what the issues are, but then it occurred to me that makes sesne as an article in itself. Hang tight. :-)

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:10:59 +0000

fyi: Your example code is appearing under the “skyscraper” AdSence ads in Firefox. In IE, the line has caused layout issues.

Jon