title: IE8/9 - Maximum bytes for CSS file
body: <p>The application I am currently working on has excessive CSS styling and we seemed to have reached some sort of limitation with IE8/9 and how much CSS it can load. At some point it stops interpreting the CSS therefore breaking style on some pages. We are using Combres to compress/minify the files which is causing such large CSS files. This seems to happen in the 400KB-450KB range (Yes, I know that is way too much for any CSS).</p>
  
  <p>So my question: What is the maximum size for a single CSS file in IE? </p>
  
  <p>Also would enabling GZIP compression help? IIS has dynamic/static compression enabled and it seems to work in Chrome but not IE.</p>