James Ellis wrote:
>>> Conditional statements in HTML such as those used by IE/Windows are
>>> a slippery slope and they seriously break a central tenet of
>>> programming. They are contained with and
>>> comments in code are not meant to be parsed as code. It's just plain
>>> badness.
>>
>> I don
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have taken the decision to step away from this weird possibility of
> IE ... simply because I do not want to be obliged, in a year or two,
> to change a bulk of web sites built on that feature.
Pat,
As long as the vector version in the conditional expression does not t
Paul Sturgess wrote:
> I've found I can't take advantage of conditional comments as the stand
> alone versions of old ie browsers i have don't support them, they all
> think they are ie6!
You can tweak the registry to fix that:
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article809.aspx
If you don't want t
I am also a bit late in the process of giving my humble advice on this thread.
Being a C programmer for almost 20 years, I would like to cover my developer's
hat for a few minutes. I strongly discourage using comments to obtain ...
"conditional compilation/interpretation".
In many languages, su
I've found I can't take advantage of conditional comments as the stand
alone versions of old ie browsers i have don't support them, they all
think they are ie6!
Doing some research into this to, mostly because I wanted to avoid the
* html selector, I came across this fantastic article:
http://www.
Hi
This is a bit late, the internet broke for me for the last few days...On 9/30/05, Thierry Koblentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:James Ellis wrote:> Conditional statements in HTML such as those used by IE/Windows are a
> slippery slope and they seriously break a central tenet of> programming. The
I think the future of CSS is not in hack or in conditional comments but
in using standard CSS. At the current time this isn't really possible
because of Internet Explorer, but from what I've heard about IE7 they
plan to do a fair amount of fixing up. Things won't be perfect and
support for nice stu
James Ellis wrote:
> Conditional statements in HTML such as those used by IE/Windows are a
> slippery slope and they seriously break a central tenet of
> programming. They are contained with and
> comments in code are not meant to be parsed as code. It's just plain
> badness.
I don't follow you h
James Ellis wrote:
comments in code are
not meant to be parsed as code.
...
> What happens if
someone adds a comment that happens to be parsed by some piece of
software? the software then goes on and does some unexpected things.
Then the software is broken, i.e. it does not adhere to spec. A
Hi
Conditional statements in HTML such as those used by IE/Windows are a
slippery slope and they seriously break a central tenet of programming.
They are contained with and comments in
code are not meant to be parsed as code. It's just plain badness. What
happens if someone adds a comment that h
Drake, Ted C. wrote:
> I think the future of CSS is not in hacks but looking seriously into
> using the conditional comments. I'm saying this as someone that is
> trying to figure out the best approach for retrofitting older
> conversions.
I rely heavily on Conditional Comments.
IMO, the easiest
On Sep 29, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Anders Nawroth wrote:
Conditional comments are IE statements that say if ie6 use this
additional CSS file, if IE5Mac, use this style sheet, if neither:
ignore this statement.
Conditional comments are Windows-only, unfortunately.
Conditional comments are va
: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:52 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] When bugs become patterns - A look at CSS Hacks
Drake, Ted C. skrev:
> I think the future of CSS is not in hacks but looking seriously into
> using the conditional comments. I'm saying this as some
Drake, Ted C. skrev:
I think the future of CSS is not in hacks but looking seriously into
using the conditional comments. I’m saying this as someone that is
trying to figure out the best approach for retrofitting older conversions.
Conditional comments are IE statements that say if ie6 use t
Irina wrote:
I've found this to be an interesting idea and wondering what other
members think about it:
"When bugs become patterns - A look at CSS Hacks":
http://spaces.msn.com/members/siteexperts/Blog/cns!
1pNcL8JwTfkkjv4gg6LkVCpw!1805.entry
The idea is not new, the logic has a lot of me
On 9/29/05, Irina Ahrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've found this to be an interesting idea and wondering what other members
> think about it:
>
> "When bugs become patterns - A look at CSS Hacks":
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/siteexperts/Blog/cns!1pNcL8JwTfkkjv4gg6LkVCpw!1805.entr
I think the future of CSS is not in hacks
but looking seriously into using the conditional comments. I’m saying
this as someone that is trying to figure out the best approach for retrofitting
older conversions.
Conditional comments are IE statements
that say if ie6 use this additional C
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