Hey rick, This happened to me as I mentioned in the last issue, and When I spoke to my client and explained to him the reason he accepted it and chosen design and cross browser compatibility to complete valid CSS and the only thing that doesn't validate is the mozilla custom opacity:
Parse Error - opacity=65) Property -moz-opacity doesn't exist : 0.65 however it all comes back to the client and their requests! On 8/22/07, Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] > ******************************************************************* > > -- http://www.Mjama.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
