- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:10:52 +0100
- To: Gabriele Romanato <gabriele.romanato@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Gabriele Romanato wrote: > IE's conditional comments are a standard de facto, since they're widely > used by authors and provide a good interoperability with this UA. > My proposal is to extend CC also to other UA. Conditional comments are a Trident-specific feature for text/html and serving different styles is not their only use. Their standardization would be a matter for the HTML WG and (perhaps) the XHTML2 WG to consider, not the CSS WG. I suggest you redirect your proposal to them, including a use-case in terms of the author and user problems you're trying to solve and an evaluation of different alternatives for meeting that use-case. /If/ we want a standard way to explicitly target particular engines or user agents (rather than allowing degradation or using hacks) - and that's an idea that has a lot of opposition - I think a variant of the @ua and @media ideas discussed in this list over the past year would be infinitely preferable to expanding the use of comments as code. See the following threads for previous discussion: "Proposal of @ua" thread (October-December 2007): http://preview.tinyurl.com/4vubxt "@media and browsers conditional statments" thread (August 2008): http://preview.tinyurl.com/3z6es4 King regards -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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