- From: Bruce Boughton <bruce@bruceboughton.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:12:23 +0100
- To: Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo <amla70@gmail.com>
- CC: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>, Henk-Jan de Boer <html-wg@hjdeboer.nl>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "Preston L. Bannister" <preston@bannister.us>, "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>, Alexander Graf <a.graf@aetherworld.org>, public-html@w3.org
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
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