Posted by kchayka on 04/11/06 19:21

John Bokma wrote:
> "Paul Watt" <paulioNOSPAM@wattio.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> "kchayka" <usenet@c-net.us> wrote in message
>> news:49vmelFqq2rnU1@individual.net...
>>>
>>> Sounds very much like you are treating the symptoms, not the problem.
>>> That is surely the wrong way to go about it.
>>
>> What would you suggest?
>
> If it's an IE only issue (make sure that it really is) then you don't use
> hacks, you use "conditional comments":

I wouldn't leave it to this particular OP to determine it really is an
IE only issue. He isn't adept enough at CSS to know. Given time, maybe.

Looking at his test page <http://www.paulwatt.info/test/calendar.htm>
I'd say he is definitely going about it wrong.

> Hacks are ugly.

As someone else pointed out, conditional comments are indeed a hack, but
cluttering up the HTML instead of the CSS. Personally, I'd rather have
that kind of clutter in one CSS file instead of embedded on every page.

BTW, since IE7 does sooooooo much better at CSS than IE6 does, I have
found the *html hack to be most excellent. IE7 ignores it, and applies
the standard CSS rules other browsers get. Beautiful. :)

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