On Thu, March 6, 2008 9:47 am, Ingo Chao wrote:
>
> This is red in IE8
>
> /*\*//*/
> body {background:red !important}
> /**/
>
> http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/
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> IE8 is reading styles that were meant to be served to IE-mac.Mere speculation, but this suggests an interesting possibility: the IE Team would have faced a lot of work to create a CSS 2.1-compliant rendering engine from scratch, but Microsoft already owns the source code for a rendering engine with excellent support for CSS 2 - the IE 5-Mac rendering engine. Could it be that (very sensibly) they drew on that body of existing and known-good code for the work on IE 8, and this CSS-comment -parsing bug has crept in along with the good stuff? Just a thought... Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
