Re: star hack and IE 7 (was Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements)

2006-03-08 Thread Terrence Wood
Gunlaug Sørtun: Nothing wrong with 'conditional comments' I always weigh it up with the cost of CC code size plus the server trip for the file, vs. the code size for inline '* html hacks', usually the latter method wins. kind regards Terrence Wood.

star hack and IE 7 (was Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements)

2006-03-07 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Darren West wrote: I would advise against * html hacks though - http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2005_12.html#a000598 The * html hack will not pose a problem as long as IE 7 fixes its other bugs and inconsistencies (it will just ignore the * html like other good browsers, and -

star hack and IE 7 (was Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements)

2006-03-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Paul Novitski wrote: These coincidental clusters of bugs vary from one version of a browser to the next which is why so many hacks are version-dependent. Like browser-sniffing, relying on them makes for fragile code. You can get away with using them for the time being, but where's the long