[Wsuug] Conditional CSS revisited

[Reese]

Hi Jason,

Jason Wilson wrote:
> "But when a design absolutely requires that one Web
> browser (IE6 probably) be fed different information than all others,
> because of known flaws in the rendering engine of that one browser,
> then what?"
> 
> Then you use separate patch CSS files and call them in using conditional 
> comments.
> 
> There's no reason to muddy up your CSS on every single 
> relative declaration. The way they do it just doesn't make any sense and
> will cause more work than help.

What I'm hearing you say is that for any given rendering engine bug that 
cannot be resolved by any other means, you'd rather muddy up the markup
and add an additional style sheet too, than add just 1 straightforward
line to your existing style sheet. Does that sum up your position? If
yes, how do you justify it?

My apologies if that sounds like an attack, it isn't meant that way. I
only want to understand why you've taken the position you have on this
particular conditional CSS implementation. Earlier, you said that you've
seen this method employed but you didn't say where. Perhaps the "where"
isn't really important but I'm curious. I'm also curious what your
impression was when you realized what that other site was doing. We
should also specify whether they were targeting IE for some specific
fixes only or if they had wild and zany conditionals to showcase the
technique, viz the conditional-css.org site.

Reese