On 29/07/2011 6:36 PM, Mark Henderson wrote:
Philippe wrote:
In a decent browser, it won't select anything and nothing though...
That hack relies on the fact that the simple little mind of IE 6& 7
‘thinks’ there is an element that wraps around the root element
(html). Of course there is none.
And Alan responded:
This is not correct. For IE6 and earlier, there is an element outside
<html>.
[..]
This means that IE6- sees this.
<root-container>
<html> ...</html>
</root-container>
Perhaps this comes down to interpretation. Putting things in a
different light, let's assume that Philippe was talking with regards
to the specifications (that's how I took it) and they say that html
_IS_ the root.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#Document_structure_elements
So it doesn't matter that the IE developers forgot they had
implemented some hidden node outside of<html>, to my mind what
Philippe said /was/ still correct.
Just an opinion.
I should have said that it is not completely correct about there being
no node wrapping around <html> in IE6-. The rest of what Philippe said
is correct.
--
Alan Gresley
http://css-3d.org/
http://css-class.com/
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