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Re:How Google makes Google(+) fast by coderdude on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @03:37AM (#3237549)
"On a side note, you may have noticed that we load our CSS via a XHR instead of a style tag - that is not for optimization reasons, that’s because we hit Internet Explorer’s max CSS selector limit per stylesheet!"

Can anyone go into more detail about what they're talking about here? I didn't realize IE had a "CSS selector limit." Seems like a funny thing to mention when you're talking about how optimized your site is.

Re:How Google makes Google(+) fast by gvido on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @04:00AM (#3237603)
Yes, the magic number is 4095 selectors. And it's still true, even in IE9.
Re:How Google makes Google(+) fast by youngtaff on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:13PM (#3239027)
Do they really need that many selectors - it can't be good for performance?