Hi, "a race condition between loading the page and loading its CSS" -- that doesn't make any sense to me. Even if the CSS is contained in an external file, it will be loaded as part of the page rendering by the browser, unless your friend is doing something very weird. 

<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
</head>
<body>

<h1>Hello, world</h1>

</body>
</html>

[download]

Tell him only PHP has that problem ....


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: [OT] Testing race conditions in web pages by 1nickt
in thread [OT] Testing race conditions in web pages by davies

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