On Sep 29, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Anders Nawroth wrote:
Conditional comments are IE statements that say if ie6 use this
additional CSS file, if IE5Mac, use this style sheet, if neither:
ignore this statement.
Conditional comments are Windows-only, unfortunately.
Conditional comments are valid comments. I think hacks are more
treacherous than structuring your comments to activate an IE-only
property in a way that is deliberate on the part of the browser
developer (and therefore supported, and therefore future-secure if
not future-proof). But it does mean that a) you need to code first
for standards, and send IE a corrective stylesheet, and b) you need
to markup the content to support it.
The only unavoidable downside I see is that it encourages bad browser
sniffing behavior. I think the multitude of hacks out there encourage
worse behavior.
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