This is probably one of those questions that divides the audience (no, it doesn't involve brussel sprouts), but here goes:
As exponents of web standards, we all know that one of the bedrock basics is that our code should validate -- both (x)html and css. But we also know that IE(win) is something of a recalcitrant beast and must occasionally be spanked into order with some hacks and/or conditionally commented stylesheets. And sometimes the workarounds required are non-valid CSS. So, is it considered 'okay', in a web standards sense, to have a non- valid "bug-fixes" stylesheet working alongside your perfect, pristine, uiber-valid main stylesheet? To give an example, if I were to have an IE-specific stylesheet with a lot of stuff like filter: alpha(opacity=50) in it -- which, a quick Google check informs me, does not validate -- would that be seen as a breach of web standards? Perhaps this whole issue is me getting too focused on the nitty gritty, but I'm in the process of moving from 'old-school' to web standards and am trying very hard to get it 'right'. This is just one of the goal posts that I'd like to clearly identify. Thanks. -- Rick Lecoat ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
