To handle IE9, I need to have Meteor NOT concatenate the css files

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IE9 has a 4095 selectors / stylesheet limit. ( you can read a little bit about that here ). Once that limit is hit, the rest of the styling rules are silently ignored. (thank you Microsoft employees for not even bothering with a error message to console)

I would a clean solution from the Meteor community on how to have Meteor serve the original css files (minimizing is o.k. but not concatenated) to IE9-.

We are doing a temporary hack of asking user to upgrade but that seems really lame since the solution is "simply" get Meteor to not concatenate the css files.

there is no such a way yet. It would be nice to open a GitHub issue to track this though :) — imslavko, Mar 01 '14 at 19:09
I think the better way would be to ask user to use a normal browser instead of upgrading IE ;) — Hubert OG, Mar 01 '14 at 19:55
IE jokes aside, if you haven't already open a GitHub issue on Meteor's page. — Dave, Mar 02 '14 at 02:45
@imslavko - github issue: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/1876 — Pat, Mar 02 '14 at 03:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '14 at 23:53

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I don't know if this helps in your case, but we faced a similar issue with IE earlier and the workaround we used was to split the CSS generated into multiple files. IE allows upto 31 stylesheets per page so that makes up to 4095 x 31 selectors, which is better but still not the best.

answered Jun 09 '14 at 23:53

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meteor concatenates the css – Pat Jun 11 '14 at 06:16
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for now u should consider putting part of your css in /public and reference it manually. – myrocode Oct 16 '14 at 09:52
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Our solution: "we defined away the problem": we decided not to support IE9 :-) – Pat Oct 23 '14 at 16:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '15 at 09:38

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At the moment, you should split, minify, and concatenate the CSS yourself, and place it inside the /public directory and reference it that way.

answered Jan 16 '15 at 09:38

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To handle IE9, I need to have Meteor NOT concatenate the css files

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