James Ellis wrote:
One of the functions of this list and group is to implement best practices using W3C standards based development. These conditionals you talk about are a Microsoft addition to workaround bugs in their software (what happened to fixing the bugs?), like coloured scrollbars and DirectX calls in CSS instead of correct PNG alpha support.
However, as opposed to coloured scrollbars and such, they are completely invisible to standards compliant browsers.
Feel free to use your conditional comments, I'm not going to stop you, but don't pass it off as good programming.
It's not good in a standards purist sense, but in a "rubber meets the road" real world best practice usage sense, they're on par with CSS based import hacks and the like. Wouldn't say that either technique is better than the other...
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