Using stylesheets in Vaadin applications

This topic is the discussion thread for the Vaadin documentation page Using stylesheets in Vaadin applications.

Questions, feedback, and comments are welcome here.

If the application is configured to use a custom URL mapping for the VaadinServlet (e.g. vaadin.url-mapping setting in Spring applications), the referenced stylesheet must be prefixed by the context:// protocol.

is there some reason i cannot use context:// always?