On 1/23/07, Eric A. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At 11:22 AM -0500 1/23/07, Matt Dawson wrote:
>
> >The reason this hack rubs me the wrong way is that you're using the hack
> to
> >pass a value to FF and other compliant browsers. IE7 gets the
> unblemished,
> >unhacked version. It's the exact opposite of the way I usually work.
>
>     Yeah, same here.  I can see where this hack might have utility,
> though-- in cases where you absolutely have to meet this browser
> support profile AND conditional comments are, for whatever reason,
> not an option.  It can and does happen: I've had clients tell me that
> hacks in the CSS are okay but in the markup they aren't, and of
> course some people work (or play) in environments where they have
> control over the CSS but the markup is inviolate.
>

That's pretty much the situation here. Most of the sites that I maintain is
driven by a very complex content engine, and I have to raise tasks and
generally bug people if I want to change the HTML. CSS I have complete
control over.

Which is not such a bad thing. I am provided with "content", which I must
then style to a design. How I do that is temporary and evolving; the content
itself remains the same.

Besides that, there is something very ugly about conditional comments; while
I find some CSS hacks/filters aesthetically acceptable.

-- 
Chris Ovenden

http://thepeer.blogspot.com
"Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world"
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