Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote:
I personally use the star html hack for IE all the time, so I really
hope they don't fix that in IE7. It doesn't do any harm, and it serves
as a nice filter. I may need to switch entirely to conditional
comments, though.
I think it depends on the amount of bugs they fix, to decide wether the
star html hack is good or bad.
A number of pages have included this sort of hack
* html .container {height: 1%;}
to adress numerous Layout Bugs.
While we hope that IE will respect the specs one day, than we have to
face that the height bug (the extend-to-fit) will be fixed somewhere on
that long way.
Once the height bug is fixed, the star html hack must die, or all the
pages that have used the Holly Hack in the past will break, because the
container will collapse. Otherwise, a maintenance horror will occur.
I think Philippe is right, its pointless to some degree, and we have to
use CC's when we want to code safer.
And we probably have to carefully review /all/ pages once IE7 is there,
not only the pages that have used "hacks" explicitely that the designer
is aware of: what about the pages that rely on IE bugs (implicit
'hacks') that are now fixed?
Ingo
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