I rather liked the conditionals around the body. What's not to like?
Imho, it goes against the separation of structure and presentation
(plus it
messes up with the cascade), but I can understand why they are doing
this.
Since most people strongly believe that CSS validation is a must,
they have
to offer a solution that comes with the "badge".
Fwiw, I'd delete that junk markup and go with good old _property and
*property hacks ;-)
I like to concept of Conditional Comments around the <body>, and can
see your point about it going against the concept of structure/
presentation. Regardless, I have two other concerns:
1. to stop IE8 stalling, you have to place an empty conditional
comment near the top of the document head. I'm sure that every time
one of these is added to a document a fairy dies somewhere. Details
here (under "Update"):
http://www.phpied.com/conditional-comments-block-downloads/
2. if you use a CMS that pushes classes into the <body> element, you
are in all sorts of trouble with this method.
If you really like this method, an alternative is to use the same
method on the <html> element.
http://htmlcssjavascript.com/css/rethinking-the-how-to-serve-ie-specific-css-question/
Here is a sample page (view source to see the Conditional Comments
around the head element):
http://htmlcssjavascript.com/samples/cc/mine.html
The bottom line is that all solutions when dealing with earlier
versions of IE are going to be some sort of hack - whether it is a CSS
hack or an HTML hack - it comes down to choices that you have to make...
- which is most efficient
- which is most future proof (won't come back and bite you)
- which is easiest to maintain
etc
Thanks
Russ
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