Re: FN-FORUM: Sitecheck - Updating my website - using CSS

date posted 13th March 2008 17:46


On 13 Mar 2008, at 18:38, Anthony Cartmell wrote:

>
>> I know it passes the Acid2 test, but something's not right with
>> it, because hacks to get IE6 working like:
>
>> don't work in IE8
>>
>> I can only assume that it's not seeing the html>body declaration
>> like a good browser should...
>>
>> and I haven't had time to check it for sure.
>
> Why not include your IE6-specific styles in a stylesheet that's only
> included for IE6, using conditional comments? Then you don't have to
> rely on CSS hacks at all.

I use CC's exclusively now.

when I wrote the CSS for this site back in 2005 IE7 was a distant
glimmer and conditional comments not especially mainstream.

Hindsight is wonderful...

;o)

As it happened IE7 didn't break anything, and my Standards Based CSS
with minimal hacks was okay.

IE8 Beta had better just be buggy, because I really don't want to
rewrite 2,000 lines of CSS.




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