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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 10/24/06 21:02
patrick j wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been testing out the "Conditional Comment" for IE. This is because
> for my web-site I want to have two style sheets, one for IE 6 and one
> for other browsers. Thus I hope to have my web-site as I want it for
> "other browsers" but still have it presentable in IE.
>
> I understand why the conditional comment works, despite the subject
> header for this posting. What I don't understand is why IE "ignores"
> the link to the CSS that precedes the conditional comment link.
>
> Now that I've got you transfixed with interest I will give you the URL
> to my conditional comment test web-page:
>
> <http://www.patrickjames.me.uk/cond_com_test.html>
>
> Fortunately it is at least a very positive message.
>
> Viewed with IE/Win 6 or 5 the background is maroon, the text is white.
> Viewed with any other browser then the background is white the text is
> maroon.
>
> I have the "Link" tags in the HTML header section arranged like this:
>
> <link href="cond_com_test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
> <!--[if lt IE 7]>
> <link href="cond_com_test_ie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >
> <![endif]-->
>
> As you can see the link to the "other browser" style-sheet comes before
> the one within the conditional comment for IE/Win 5/6.
>
> I understand that IE makes a decision on the basis of the conditional
> comment, it's programmed to recognise it, but what I don't understand
> is how it knows to ignore the link to the style-sheet for other
> browsers which comes first?
>
> Ideally I would just be glad it works and not wonder about this I guess
Ypu are giving two conflicting commands. You must both tell what to do
if IE and what to do if not IE. There is a IE not command, but it is
not valid html. However, there is a way around this that will validate
at W3C. For example, see
http://www.cwdjr.info/broadbandMedia/formatsAX/cancanWMV.php . This
page takes an ActiveX object path if IE is present and an ordinary
object path if IE is not present. Note this page requires a rather high
rate broadband connection to buffer in a reasonable time, and if the
browser is IE, ActiveX must be on. Also a WMP must be installed.
The code of interest here is:
<!--[if IE]>
<div style="text-align:center">
<object id="player"
classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" height="340"
width="400">
<param name="URL" value="http://www.cwdjr.info/movie/cancanvbr.wvx" />
<param name="autoStart" value="false" />
<param name="playCount" value="1" />
<param name="volume" value="100" />
<param name="balance" value="0" />
<param name="stretchToFit" value="true" />
</object>
</div>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]> <-->
<div style="text-align:center">
<object data="http://www.cwdjr.info/movie/cancanvbr.wvx"
type="video/x-ms-wvx" style="width:400px; height:340px">
<param name="src" value="http://www.cwdjr.info/movie/cancanvbr.wvx"
valuetype="ref" />
<param name="showcontrols" value="1" valuetype="data" />
<param name="showstatusbar" value="1" valuetype="data" />
<param name="autostart" value="0" valuetype="data" />
<param name="volume" value="0" valuetype="data" />
<param name="PlayCount" value="1" valuetype="data" />
</object>
</div>
<!--><![endif]-->
Nite the <!--[if !IE]> <--> which is closed by <!--><![endif]--> to
take the correct path if not IE and to also validate at W3C.
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