No-inherit mode

[zlatanvasovic]

There should be a way to avoid inheritance over subdomains.

E.g. <prefix>github.com.css shouldn't apply to gist.github.com.

[stewart]

I think the inheritance is nice, but the way it currently works, if you visit http://gist.github.com dcssd will load and serve the following ~/.css files, in this order:

• ~/.css/default.css
• ~/.css/gist.github.com.css
• ~/.css/github.com.css

So, unfortunately, this means that any styles defined in gist.github.com.css are likely to be clobbered by github.com.css. The best way to deal with this while maintaining inheritance might be to ensure subdomain CSS is loaded later in the order, perhaps doing a ascending order of length? So the order would become:

• ~/.css/default.css
• ~/.css/github.com.css
• ~/.css/gist.github.com.css

Does this seem more like what you're looking for? Then you can have global GitHub styles in github.com.css and overwrite them if need be in gist.github.com.css.

[stewart]

I'm remiss to offer 'modes' since I think something like dotcss should have zero configuration. You install it, it serves CSS. That's it.

[zlatanvasovic]

No, that's not it. I want to avoid loading of the github.com styles on
gist.github.com.

2014-03-08 22:06 GMT+01:00 Andrew Stewart notifications@github.com:

I'm remiss to offer 'modes' since I think something like dotcss should
have zero configuration. You install it, it serves CSS. That's it.

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[stewart]

I've found having the subdomains load the root domain css more useful than not, and it's also the behaviour in defunkt/dotjs, so I'm opting to stick with that for now. If you really do want that behaviour, the most straightforward way (I think?) to get it would be to fork dotcss and apply a patch like this.

[zlatanvasovic]

I didn't thought about something like that. :D

My idea was:

dotcss should ignore parent domain styles if there is a subdomain styles that are in the file prefixed with underscore (or whatever prefix else).

So, if there is a _gist.github.com.css file, github.com.css shouldn't be loaded.

[psynaptic]

I actually really like the idea.