Short anwser: try and use 2 hacks.
I recommend developing for the best standards compliant browsers first: Firefox, Opera, or Safari.
This will ensure that your CSS is clean and valid and should work well with future standards compliant browsers.
Then I deal to/with IE/PC. I always use the * html hack at the end of my stylesheet to deliver styles to these browsers (5, 5.5, 6), and if the number of fixes get big enough I then put them into an external style sheet and hide that from nonIE using conditional comments.
Then on to IE/Mac, if I can get away with it I use the * html hack again at the end of my stylesheet for this browser, checking the result against my IE/PC stylesheet, but some people put styles for this browser in another file and include it with a filter.
Keep it as simple as possible and only hack browser which are 'dead' or 'dumb'.
so I recommend using only two hack if you can do it:
* html {//stuff} for IE/* \*/ {//stuff}/* */ to hide rules from Mac IE
HTH
Terrence Wood
On 2004-12-01 6:08 PM, Seona Bellamy wrote:
Hi guys,
I have a site I'm doing for a graphic designer friend of mine, and one of the things I needed to do was to absolutely position each element of the navigation because she wanted to have them follow the shape of the design. So far so good, and I put together a working template on her Mac when I was there yesterday. I've since taken the files home so I can continue working on them, looked at the template on my PC and found that all of the navigation is out of whack. :(
I was thinking of creating a second stylesheet with a new set of positioning rules that would be hidden from Mac browsers and hide the current one from PC browsers (no need to make everyone download everything). So is this a job for conditional comments? Or is there another way to do this? Do I need to just use hacks to hide the extra rules, so that everyone downloads everything and only processes the relevant bits? Either way, what would be the recommended syntax?
Cheers,
Seona.
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