Hi Philip, If you could get into the proprietary code to (presumably) remove the offending property, I wouldn't call that "hacking".
But, as many have said here in other threads, the validator is a guideline, not a law. We know what the purpose of zoom is and subsequently why your code isn't validating. I personally would be able to live with that. Just my 2¢... On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > Wishing (as always) to keep my sites 100% W3C standards compliant, > I am stuck with a bad property in proprietary code. The offending > rule reads : > > .qmmc {position:relative;zoom:1;} > > and so (rather naively) I inserted a later rule in my local > customisations that reads : > > .qmmc {position:relative} > > Unfortunately (of course) the Validator still barfs on the earlier > entry. If it had been a bad property value such as "position: > sideways", I am reasonably confident that a subsequent re-definition > as "position: relative" would have been fine, in that (presumably but > not certainly) the validator evaluates the cascade before deciding > which rules to validate (is this assertion true ?), but given that > it is not a bad property value but a bad property, is there nothing > I can do short of hacking proprietary code to make this site valid ? > > Philip Taylor > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > 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/ -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/