Umm... the first result:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=conditional+comments+are+evil&btnG=Search&meta=
is http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2005Apr/0027.html
One of the functions of this list and group is to implement best practices using W3C standards based development. These conditionals you talk about are a Microsoft addition to workaround bugs in their software (what happened to fixing the bugs?), like coloured scrollbars and DirectX calls in CSS instead of correct PNG alpha support.
Feel free to use your conditional comments, I'm not going to stop you, but don't pass it off as good programming.
Check out the HTML 4 spec on comments : http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#idx-HTML for more info.
Thanks
James
On 10/10/05, Thierry Koblentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a side note, Googling "Conditional Comments are evil" doesn't return
anything...
yet! ;)
