Conditional statements are great for IE problems but it doesn't help when you need to isolate a problem with Mozilla or Safari browsers.
All I am suggesting is that the word "Deprecated" be swapped with something not so strong in meaning to something that conveys it's not the best practice to use browser sniffing and that functionality testing should be used when applicable instead. Ralph On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, George <george.jqu...@softwareunity.com>wrote: > > One simple example might be in IE6 where you need to add a transparent > iframe to stop <select> elements from bleeding through html elements > that are on top of them. I'm not aware of any way to detect this need > by testing functionality. > > (Someone else on this thread has quite rightly suggested the use of > conditional comments as a way to tackle situations like this. Yep, > they could be used to separate special js functionality.) > > George > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---