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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] I believe you're misreading the spec to drive your point, reisio.[/quote]Why would I limit it to HTML 4? [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] It says 'no special meaning' (within the scope of this specification, or that an implementor would have to care about in order to support the specification.).[/quote]Yup [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] It does not say 'no meaning'.[/quote]Indeed [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] Having IE only comments is just as valid markup as keeping 'magic markers' for some kind of editor (even if that editor's called "Bob" and the comment reads "edit the line below") in comments.[/quote]Well, it's potentially not any more invalid. [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] Is it valid markup? Yes.[/quote]Clearly not. [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] Is it pretty? No.[/quote]Indeed [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] Should it be avoided? Yes.[/quote]Indeed [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] At all costs? No.[/quote]You haven't defined what possible costs there could be :p but it's irrelevant, because in addition to being proprietary/non-standard, they aren't even ever necessary. [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] But if the 'appropriate answer' is to have two websites instead and rely on server side detection to deliver the right one - well, that's bound to be more fragile than piggybacking on comments. And it disempowers the user agent.[/quote]That's never necessary, either. [quote][b]Tyberius Prime said:[/b] As for embed, bgsound or layer: None of these are syntactically valid tags. <!--[if IE]> ... is a syntactically completly valid content (if semantically dubious).[/quote]Nope. Just as those are invalid because the spec does not include them, so too are IE conditional comments, which are not only not included, but expressly forbidden. Loading...
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