Posted by John Bokma on 04/12/06 01:38

Johannes Koch <koch@w3development.de> wrote:

> John Bokma wrote:
>> With a conditional comment you knew beforehand how to make that some
>> CSS is *not* going to be processed by IE7.
>
> Unfortunately, you make some _HTML_ not being processed by IE. There
> is no such thing like conditional comments in CSS where IMHO it would
> be much more useful.

True. But it's way better compared to relying on exploits in parsers that
are discovered. The cc's are documented by the *maker* of the browser.
Exploits can stop working with a minor update.

Worse, if such an exploit is very popular, a browser developer might feel
obliged to keep such an exploit working, using some kind of automatic
detection system, which complicates the parser.

> xpost and f'up2 comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets

ignored.

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