On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:17:13 +0000, Barney Carroll wrote: > Not wishing to suggest debate, but I want to know where IE7 stands with > hacks. > [snipped references to hacks] > > Does anyone know of a more comprehensive article than PIE's? I am > currently working on a site that suffers immensely from IE7 rendering > (everything else is fine but I have used countless hack and non-hack > browser-specific correction). I assume there must be hundreds of people > in the same position, only they forgot to invite me to the wake. > Hi Barney,
Personally, I would avoid hacks as far as possible if I were you. Microsoft and others recommend using so-called "conditional comments"[1] to supply rules for IE. You can also _hide_ rules from IE this way. (Some regard "conditional comments" as a hack, but as they exploit no browser bug, they are perfectly safe to use, IMO) Having said that, it is sometimes useful to "hack the dead" as some put it. Once a particular version of a browser has well and truly passed into history, it is relatively safe to exploit a bug to apply a hack for that browser. (Notice I say "relatively". There's no guarantee that some future browser won't get that same bug!) One hack I use is when I have a style sheet for all IE versions that, say, uses "height: 1%" to give layout to an element. IE 5.0 does not recognize "zoom: 1" - the preferred "hasLayout" trigger, and "height" has worked fine to date. So I exploit the "star HTML" hack you refer to in order to hide that from IE 7, and use another trigger for "hasLayout" for IE 7. Note that was for a "quick fix" that I found preferable to creating an additional style sheet for that one rule. I hope this reference to "conditional comments" helps: <http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html> If you have multiple versions of IE installed as "stand-alone" versions, take a look at the additional notes on using conditional comments here: <http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/multiIE.html> Cordially, David -- www.hucklesby.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
