Posted by andrew on 12/03/07 22:53

On 2007-12-03, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

[...]

> And just in case both answers (by Harlan and Dylan) are not clear
> enough, it is simple enough if you think what the conditional is
> doing.

In fact the problem was that rather than making an effort to fully
/understand/ what I was doing I blindly pasted code with little
understanding. It validated of course because the validator could not
see it.

> Nothing inside the conditional comments is visible to any but IE.
> So that settles one question, namely it does not matter what is
> there for browsers other than IE, never mind a trailing slash,
> you could have a croaking frog in there and they would not know.
> And now the question about what you want IE 5 to see. Well, that
> is really simple too. What do you want it to see? You would not
> want it to see a trailing slash surely, that is not how it is
> done in 4.01. not even for IE5!

Thanks for expressing this so clearly. I am in the middle of stripping
the slash from my hobby site as we speak and cursing myself for not
/thinking/ about what I was doing.

Andrew
--
"For the God who sings"
http://www.andrews-corner.org/ftgws.html

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