Re: [WSG] Standard Hacks?

[J4Web]

Well; I am surprised, but pleased actually, that so many of you are saying 
that hacks are not part of the Standards Arsenal. I had got the impression 
that I needed to become familiar with gadzillian hacks and be able to draw 
the appropriate one out of the woodwork every ten lines of CSS code. But I 
am getting the message that one can produce Standards Compliant pages 
without hacking.

I am not quite totally convinced, though, and some of the replies have gone 
in the direction of supporting a "big fat list", if not including some 
hacks in standard templates.

I wondered if there are some workarounds that people on this list use 
habitually and forget they use them, so I did a quick sample of some of the 
URLs at the bottom of peoples' posts and the only hack I found so far (but 
I have not searched very thoroughly) was on the webstandards.org.au site :

<style type="text/css" media="screen">@import 
url("/stylesheets/wsg_advanced.css");</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/wsg_main.css" type="text/css" 
media="screen"

Is the import hack a candidate for first (or sole) item on the list of 
standard hacks?

It seems pretty essential to me to get version 4 browsers to degrade 
gracefully.

I am enjoying learning from those who have been in this game much longer 
than me.

John
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