Posted by Spartanicus on 12/12/06 23:28

Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:

>>>Try using zoom:1 instead of the height property. It's a proprietary MS
>>>property
>>
>> The stylesheet won't be standards-compliant anymore.
>
>So what? Passing validation is a worthy goal, but is not the be-all and
>end-all. There is nothing wrong with using proprietary properties if you
>know what you are doing. That's not in the same category as exploiting
>parsing errors, if that's what you're thinking.

I'd go further, validation is only a tool that may be of some help to
beginners to discover basic syntax errors. But there is no intrinsic
value in CSS that "validates". Most competent developers never check
their CSS with a syntax checker, ergo nothing is lost by their code not
passing a dumb bot check.

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Spartanicus

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