Comments on: Targeting IE 7.0

By: the english guy

the english guy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:28:57 +0000

Yes I think conditional statements are elegant too, a nice workaround for the many bugs we encounter.

By introducing more CSS trickery though, we do get ourselves used to a few more years of inadequate CSS support. One day Microsoft will finally support the full CSS set. One day…

Nice trick though, I’ll remember it!

By: Stephen Last

Stephen Last — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:36:32 +0000

You say that using conditional comments is “basically a simple form of browser sniffing” and that you don’t want to go that way. Surely the whole point of your post is that you want to sniff out IE 7, so I don’t see the problem – it does exactly what you want.

Personally I think conditional comments are much much much neater that hacks. It allows you to write proper CSS for proper browsers, and keep all the fixes for IE separate – perfect.

Nice refreshing site design by the way, I like it.

By: Ran

Ran — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:53:31 +0000

There’s no argument that a conditional comment and a separate CSS file for IE7 are not comfortable. But at least they are risk free.
Using the exploit WILL backfire when the bug is fixed. I wouldn’t want to have to check my site(s) every day..

By: Ankur

Ankur — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:27:25 +0000

Very nice workaround. Should be very helpful in targeting IE, since it doesn’t really like the standards (yet). I normally use conditional comments if I have to fix something, otherwise I just try to remove functionality until the site works in all browsers. Otherwise, I just let IE mess it up and leave it that way.