Paul Novitski wrote:
But seriously, how many years have you been telling yourself the star
hack is unsafe? What did that lack of safety ever mean?
Same as it means now -- the likelihood that someday your code will fail
because it depends on the coincidence of two unrelated bugs in an
evolving software product.
I believe that even the most clueless of futurologists can believe that
IE6 isn't going to get any radical updates in our lifetimes :)
Lack of support for multiple classes can hardly be called a 'bug' at
this point. It's more like a 'feature'.
Only if you accept Microsoft's bugs as standards in preference to the
W3C spec.
It's not just a question of what we and the w3 believe. The only reason
we tackle these things in the first place is because Microsoft is
incredibly influential. We have to consider the fact that to this day
(and the concept has been floating a pretty long time) they still don't
want to implement multiple class selectors.
When I say this, I'm not suggesting that multiple class rules are a bad
thing at all. I'm asserting what I believe to be a fairly certain
judgment that Microsoft don't like the notion. If they do, they've had
plenty of time to implement it and haven't. It's an incredibly basic
translation process, after all.
I would like to see IE support multiple classes, but if it resolutely
doesn't, we can use this feature inventively.
Given their recent work on IE7, I don't think it's too naive to ascribe
to them a desire to fix their software to match the spec:
I am by no means suggesting that IE7 is less advanced than IE6, but it
is still plenty buggy in both familiar and fresh ways.
A significant update such as this creates all sorts of new problems and
new ways to solve them. We have to evolve with them. All of us.
Hackers have developed sites which fail to some degree under IE7, and
they have had to investigate, look over their code, test and amend. The
same has happened to everyone else. There seems to be this notion that
hackers run the risk of having to do some extra work when a new browser
comes out. Who doesn't?
Regards,
Barney
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