On 3/23/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barney Carroll wrote: > > david wrote: > >> Or avoid a bunch of hacks and just use conditional comments to feed IE7 > >> what it needs. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet! > > > > Quite refreshing, innit? I think it's because conditional comments > > aren't CSS. > > > > Increasingly I find more people find it more important to maintain > > honestly valid HTML than CSS - as long as the markup is sparkling, the > > horrors underneath can twist and turn to accommodate whatever will eat them. > > CSS is a powerful thing, but it is intended to work with valid HTML (as > the W3C CSS validator reports). Clean, basic HTML avoids problems. And > conditional comments don't interfere with that at all. >
I think it's disingenuous to call conditional comments "clean, basic HTML". We all want to do beautiful, cross-platform, futureproof page layouts using semantic, accessible markup; unfortunately user agents are currently not quite up to the job (and, much as I love it, I have to include Firefox in this). So we hack; or, less pejoratively, we work around known issues with the user agents we're given - counting our blessings that we live in 2007 and not 1997. Whether we hack the CSS, the HTML or a bit of both is a matter of personal choice (personally I'm with Barney on this) - but call it what it is and don't try to pretend to purity. Chris -- Chris Ovenden http://thepeer.blogspot.com "Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world" ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
