> I would advise against * html hacks though - > http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2005_12.html#a000598
Personally I think building/testing/making long-term strategy for a beta-version browser is not advisable. We will not know what IE7 can and can't do until it is actually released. Until then we are all just wasting our time speculating and arguing. The next beta could break things that work in the current beta. I certainly don't understand why so many people have been so willing to accept Microsoft's decree - "stop using that simple hack which can be removed from your CSS anytime you like; bloat your content with our proprietary hack, you miserable ingrates!". Conditional comments are a hack - an ugly, inefficient hack at that. Planning for the future includes the thought "hey, when IE6 becomes irrelevant, I'm going to have to edit every single HTML document I've got to remove this bloat!". Remember, not every site uses a CMS (and not every CMS has a decent template system). Or alternatively, some browser will come out which has a bug that makes it read the stylesheet that was only intended for IE6; only to render a complete mess as it tries to cope with conflicting CSS. We do know that the * html hack works right now and it's entirely plausible that it will work just fine when IE7 comes out. It's entirely plausible that some future browser will have a problem with * html but it's also likely that IE6 will be a footnote by then so the hacks can be removed. The sky is not falling! /soapbox ;) Ben -- --- <http://www.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
