get the right stylesheet – or else...

not active active stylesheet

• normal: @import url("")
• test 1: @import u\rl("")
• test 2: @import _url("")
• test 3: @import *url("")
• test 4: @import \url("")
• test 5: @import $url("")
• test 6: @import --url("")
• test 7: @import */url("")
• test 8: @import url("") screen
• test 9: @import url() screen

/* chaos-060801-normal */
@import u\rl("chaos-060801-test1.css");
@import _url("chaos-060801-test2.css");
@import *url("chaos-060801-test3.css");
@import \url("chaos-060801-test4.css");
@import $url("chaos-060801-test5.css");
@import --url("chaos-060801-test6.css");
@import */url("chaos-060801-test7.css");
@import url("chaos-060801-test8.css") screen;
@import url(chaos-060801-test9.css) screen;

#independent li.imp0 {margin-left: 250px;}

Notes:

Correct result: only stylesheet 'normal' and 'test 8 & 9', should be active - all colored black.

Test 9 is part of the "@import hack", separating IE/win from other browsers.
See: prepared for IE7 for more about this hack.

Update [15.aug.2008]:Opera seems to have changed "recovery after invalid rules" strategy from version 9.50. Does pick up 'normal' styles when given 1 "dummy-rule" after @imports to recover on, but ignores all @imports after invalide one(s).
Don't know if this is acceptable behavior or not. Further testing needed.

testing browsers:

Opera:

win2K: 9.00 - correct on all.

win2K: 9.50β - correct on all.

win2K: 9.50 - see [15.aug.2008] update above.

Moz:

win2K: 1.7.12 - wrong on 1 & 4.

FF:

win2K: 1.5.0.5 - wrong on 1 & 4.

win2K: 3.0β2 - wrong on 1 & 4.

Safari:

Mac OS-X: 1.2 - correct on all.

Mac OS-X: 1.3 - correct on all.

winXP: 3.0.4 - correct on all.

IE:

win2K: 6.0 - wrong on test 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9.

winXP: 7.0 - wrong on test 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 9.

Mac OS-X: 5.2 - wrong on test 1 & 4.

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