Posted by John Bokma on 04/11/06 22:17

kchayka <usenet@c-net.us> wrote:

> As someone else pointed out, conditional comments are indeed a hack,

No: a hack is relying on a flaw or side effect in a parser that might be
not present in a future version.

A conditional comment is a well documented addition. You can already
create a conditional comment for version 7.1 of Internet Explorer. You
can't do that with a hack.

> 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. :)

With a conditional comment you knew beforehand how to make that some CSS
is *not* going to be processed by IE7. With the *html *hack* you had to
wait for a beta to test it.

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