I think the future of CSS is not in hack or in conditional comments but in using standard CSS. At the current time this isn't really possible because of Internet Explorer, but from what I've heard about IE7 they plan to do a fair amount of fixing up. Things won't be perfect and support for nice stuff will still be lagging severly, but at least there will be some platform that we can work off of.
CSS was designed to be backwards compatible, so as long as you're not doing something that would create an accessibilty issue (like things dissapearing) it would be quite alright to server modern CSS to the browsers that support it and the ones that don't will properly fall back. Of course, I'm basing this on the idea that IE7 will be up to the hype that the guys at msdn are saying, and that MS won't sit down and abandon the web for another half-decade. Drake, Ted C. wrote: > I think the future of CSS is not in hacks but looking seriously into > using the conditional comments. I’m saying this as someone that is > trying to figure out the best approach for retrofitting older conversions. > > Conditional comments are IE statements that say if ie6 use this > additional CSS file, if IE5Mac, use this style sheet, if neither: ignore > this statement. > > IE7 is going to throw a curveball worthy of a World Series ring. While > it is easy and more convenient to throw a * html statement into a CSS, > we need to start seriously looking at separating our hacks into > different style sheets and intelligently using filters and conditional > comments to refer to them. > > I think the approach this person is suggesting is very 2005, we need to > look at 2006 answers. > > I’m dreading the idea of inserting conditional comments into the head > sections of html pages. I’d like to insert it into the main.css file > that imports more sophisticated styles. I have been overwhelmed lately > and haven’t been able to test any answers to this. Does anyone have a > suggestion? > > Imagine teasing someone that their CSS is “So 2005!” Did I just coin a > term? Has Joe Clark already coined this one? > > Ted > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
