Ahhh... I didn't consider that use... but you are right - that wouldn't
validate at all

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jarrod is right. Microsoft does support "downlevel-revealed" conditionals
> (
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28VS.85%29.aspx#dlrevealed),
> which is the only case in which [if !IE] would work. These are of the form
>
> <![if !IE]> stuff <![endif]>
>
> which is, of course, invalid XHTML.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jarrod Spillers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > The problem i see with that is the fact that Internet explorer is the
> > only line of browsers that understand the conditional comments...
> >
> > if its not IE then it doesn't even understand the conditional comment
> >
> > /[if !IE 6] would apply to IE 5, 7 etc... but just /[if !IE] would never
> > be evaluated true by any browser, ever.
> >
> > - Jarrod
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Evgeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, but I did not understant what you said. What is a
> > > downlevel-revealed-conditional-comment ? :)
> > >
> > > The conditional comments I am talking about are the ones defined by M$
> > > :
> > > <!--[if !IE]--> ... <![endif]--> is how it looks like in plain html.
> > >
> > > The article on M$ is at :
> > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512(VS.85).aspx<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28VS.85%29.aspx>
> > > and you can clearly see that IE supports "The NOT operator".
> > >
> > > AFAIK Haml generates these conditional comments, and should not really
> > > think they are nested ... for example in HAML
> > >
> > >   /[if lte IE 6]
> > >     sometext
> > >
> > > will make a block in html that looks like this:
> > >   <!--[if lte IE 6]>
> > >     sometext
> > >   <![endif]-->
> > >
> > > Why should /[if !IE] break?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Haml doesn't (and won't) support generating downlevel-revealed
> > > > conditional comments. Thus "/[if !IE]" won't be useful; no browser
> > > > will
> > > > respect it.
> > > >
> > > > That said, it should at least generate something. I'll fix it some
> > > > time
> > > > today.
> > > >
> > > > - Nathan
> > > >
> > > > Evgeny wrote:
> > > > > I am trying to use an IE conditional comment, with Haml syntax -
> > > > but
> > > > > get an error (haml 1.8.2)
> > > > >
> > > > > !!!
> > > > > %html
> > > > >   %body
> > > > >   /[if !IE]
> > > > >     You are not in IE
> > > > >   /[if IE]
> > > > >     You are in IE
> > > > >
> > > > > Syntax error on line 4: Illegal Nesting: Nesting within a tag that
> > > > > already has content is illegal.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > It's a valid conditional for "if not IE", but it does not work in
> > > > haml
> > > > > ....
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > fix please?
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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