Re: legacy of incompetence? [was: a compromise to the versioning debate]

Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo wrote:
>
> I think that one of the problems with IE7 was that while fixing bugs
> MS did also fix most (I'm not sure if most or all) of the CSS
> selectors hacks, so the problem web authors had was that they couldn't
> easily provide code just to IE7 to workaround the remaining bugs in an
> easy way that didn't mean putting Conditional comments in the HTML
> page instead of putting the fix right with the rest of the CSS code.
>


If you use conditional comments correctly, it is perfectly feasible to 
target IE7 only.  The problem was the widespread use of undocumented, 
unsupported and unguaranteed *hacks* rather than the well documented and 
supported conditional comments.

Bruce