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div#div# Another IE CSS Hack technique?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]Something not being standardised does not mean it isn't standards compliant.[/quote] It increases the chances it isn't. [quote]Conditional comments in IE are just HTML comments to other browsers.[/quote] Unfortunately HTML conformance is not based on how things work in "other browsers", and the spec doesn't say "Information that appears between comments has no special meaning [b][i]except in Internet Explorer[/i][/b]", it just says "Information that appears between comments has no special meaning". [quote]CSS allows dashes to lead property names but promises to not use them for any standards property and implementations that do not recognise them just ignore them. Does that mean properties like -moz-binding or -o-replace aren't proprietary? No, it doesn't. But it means that they are not hacks either. (Hacks in this sense defined as abusing or misusing syntax or semantics for purposes that are contrary to the syntax or semantics as specified.)[/quote] While the CSS spec does explain the recommended naming conventions for [b]vendor-specific[/b] (proprietary) extensions, it does not say these are conformant, but goes so far as to say "An initial dash or underscore is guaranteed never to be used in a property or keyword by any current or future level of CSS." and "Authors should avoid vendor-specific extensions". A comparison to the HTML comment rules is therefore not apt because the CSS spec doesn't say vendor-specific extensions are conformant (except as a convention for use in a non-conformant way), and because the HTML language explicitly states "Information that appears between comments has no special meaning". Loading...
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