I'd imagine Andy meant that IE won't internally be able validate it (because it "sees through" the comments to something that's invalid) -- thus IE will degrade to quirks mode and a lot of other things you had designed under the assumption that IE would be in standards mode will be "off".
james On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:53 PM, muskokee wrote: > Hmm. When I use the validation tools, the xhtml (strict) validates > and the > css would validate (except for the "hand" cursor property which > doesn't > exist) in firefox 2.0, 1e6 and ie7. > > > On 1/25/07, Andy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 1/25/07, muskokee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Take a look at this page. >>> >>> http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/balloons.html >>> >>> This is an excellent css pop-up. >>> >> >> This is a surprising solution! I personally wouldn't use it since >> the >> conditional comments make the HTML invalid when using IE -- >> there's tables >> inside hyperlinks -- hence it's forced into quirks mode. >> >> Andy >> > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
