On 16/04/2008, James Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > > More realistic example: assume you want to use css 2.1 selectors (those > which are supported even by IE7). This makes it necessary to hide the > rules from IE6 and as a consequence you will end up with 2 very > different stylsheets: one for IE6 and below and one for IE7 and Firefox > etc. This could be done with > > <!--[if IE]><![if IE 7]><![endif]--> > <style type="text/css"> > css for Fx, Opera, Safari and IE 7 > </style> > <!--[if IE]><![endif]><![endif]--> > > <!--[if lte IE 6]> > <style type="text/css"> > css for IE 6 and IE 5.5 > </style> > <![endif]--> > > I'm not going to say thats beautiful or standards conform. But that is > the documented proprietary selection mechanism called "conditional > comments" for IE. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > But in this example IE6 won't understand the CSS2.1 selectors and so > will ignore them.... or misinterpret it. In fact it will be impossible to make IE6 behave after fed with lots of advanced selectors.
> Therefore we just add some extra commands in an IE6 > specific conditional comment so that IE6 displays the element in a > suitable way. Isn't that pretty much the principle of graceful degradation? > I personally use CC's on every site to deal with IE quirks, but wouldn't > dream of trying to hack a (MS proprietary)conditional comment to feed > stylesheets to other browsers. It seems very unsafe in terms of future > proofing to me. The CC is targeting _only_ IE and no other browser, of course. The first CC is only there to prevent IE's other than IE 7 from reading the css. For the "other browsers" there are simply 2 comments, one before and one after the <script> element and for sure the construct validates. You will love the idea to use css 2.1 selectors almost freely and not have to think what a mess it will be for IE6. Of course you will always be free to add a common css on top. Hope this helps, Manfred ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
