James, > 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.
To be honnest with you I prefer the "don't pollute" the markup speech. IMHO, "MS is evil" is a weak angle. > 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. I'm using a hack that relies on a browser's feature. You prefer to use CSS hacks that rely on browsers' *bugs*. Is that better programming? > Thanks, You're welcome, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
