Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 04/11/06 22:31

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, John Bokma wrote:

[...]
> 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.

Your point is well taken. However, the fact that there's one
notorious browser-like object that repeatedly fails to behave like a
WWW browser leads me to express the opinion that any attempt to make
that thing seem like one, has every right to be called a "hack".
Even when that's a vendor-supported "hack". I would much prefer the
vendor to supply a specification-conforming implementation (and
upgrade paths for all of their users [1]), than to supply ways of
circumventing their implementation's misbehaviours.

[1] not only those who purchase the most recent OS versions, I mean.

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