Micky Hulse wrote: > D. D. Brierton wrote: >> Anything inside a conditional comment, including a linked stylesheet, is >> precisely that -- a comment -- and so will be ignored by all other >> browsers. > > Hi Darren, > > Great, that is what I thought... I did not know if the Firefox > Javascript console would read-past the IE conditional comments and still > produce the error for zoom. > > But, as long as the online CSS validator is happy, then so am I (and I > am sure my friend will be too.) >
Not to disturb the happiness, but hiding CSS style definitions from being validated does not make them valid. They are just taken out of the process of validation. Declaring such a page as being "validated", or as "valid", is only half the story, and it's truth is somewhere near to the truth of declaring such a page as "hack-free". At least, sending even an IE-specific file to the validator while developing can show typos, and may help debugging such a hack sheet, which becomes an issue now that all are using Conditionals. Unrelated to this, for me, debugging such a conditionalized IE file means uninstalling IE7beta, fixing the bug for IE6, and reinstalling IE7 to check the fix. Going in circles. After some of those sessions, say one evening at css-d, I can say I don't think Conditionals are a good idea for debugging, to say it politely. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
