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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The main use of @import seems to be hiding heavy styling from older browsers. I use it for that purpose, at least. Perfect Thunder pointed out that linked stylesheets have the advantage of being able to be switched. They can also be dished out to specific "user agents" (read: browsers). For example adding the media="screen" tag specifies that only screen browsers read that stylesheet. I understand that there are provisions to do the same with the @import rule, but seeing as IE6 doesn't even support it, it's pretty useless. For that matter, even the "media" attribute doesn't work with a lot of browsers. Oh, well. Loading...
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