Re: [WSG] Standard Hacks?

[Mordechai Peller]

J4Web wrote:
<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?
After giving it some thought, I wouldn't call this a hack. CSS provides 
two ways of accessing external style sheets: @import and <link/>. Both 
are valid CSS. What the "hack" does is feed styles which aren't intended 
for NN4 by using a method which NN4 doesn't support. Compare this to 
what most hack do: they use irregular, but technically valid, ways of 
writing rule to take advantage of parsing errors in order to hide rules.

Another example of a "not a hack" hack might be conditional comments. 
Here too is a case of "not parsing" rather than "unable to parse".

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