I have been using sky on 7.5x for a month or so. Almost always after making admin level changes I have found that the site gets badly rendered when I return to it by closing the admin interface. The progression is usually a mix of:

site rendered as plain text
site renedered with logo image and some css
site fully rendered as it should be
admin toolstrips along the top end up in a block sized cube in the upper left hand corner.

The fix is normally to find the Home link and use that twice. It ends up being fairly time wasting. A simple browser refresh doesn't fix anything often gets more broken. I have cleared the site cache many times.

I normally use firefox. I figured it would be ok as I'm the main person that uses the admin aspects of drupal. But while doing a screen sharing with an editor I saw the site render as plain html etc just like I do. He'd already learned to put up with it.

Others must be experiencing this issue?

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Jeff Burnz commented
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Others must be experiencing this issue?

I would not think so because themes don't cache CSS or typically cause caching issues - so either it's Drupal caching issues, a module screwing up caching or something in the browser.

I mean if the site is plain HMTL clearly the CSS is not loading or being applied correctly, the theme actually doesn't do this - Drupal core does, it's the one loading the CSS files and deciding (most of the time) which templates to use. Themes just supply design and templates etc, but Drupal core is the one actually doing the final loading, aggregations and caching.

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pengi commented

I'm sure what you wrote is correct. Here is a test I made just now.
--Installed drupal 7.52.
--Installed Adaptive Theme and Sky
--Created a single basic page
--Set that page (node/1) to be the default home page.

As soon as I saved the default home page I found the site was rendered as a mess, just like the other site I originally wrote about. Here is a screenshot. This is the half rendered version - with the other site it's often plain text.

http://imgur.com/XY04jKk

Then...I went back to bartik and made the same test. The same issue appears; so it's not about Sky.

I normally use Firefox. In testing after that I could not reproduce the error using Chrome on Windows 7 (my workstation). I had thought I saw it on chrome before but so far today can't reproduce it. But the issue did arise on a Mac with Safari too.

So...what does this point to? It's a serious issue, because it happens regularly while working on a site, even when one presses the refresh button.

One other note on this - it's deployed on shared windows hosting, iis. I have no idea if that might be a factor, but it is probably atypical for most drupal deploys.

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pengi commented

Another bit on this. I installed https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_menu (administration menu) and since then the css has been more stable, but the issue still happens. It's not sky at fault, but just out of curiousity does anyone want to venture a reason for the effect I was seeing?