[Wsuug] Conditional CSS revisited

Wed Sep 17 09:10:43 EDT 2008

 I don't have much of an opinion on this because I haven't
really looked at what this tool does. Still, reading my
feeds this a.m. I noticed that Andy Clarke has a post up
about it. He's using it to feed stylesheets for Safari
Touch:

http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/conditional_css_for_s
afari_touch/

He writes, "With a little server-side parsing behind the
scenes, Conditional-CSS allows you to place your browser
conditional CSS styles within your CSS style-sheet instead
of in the <head> of your document."

>From Clarke's description, it's sounds like a souped up
version of what Zach talked about awhile back. This way, the
conditional comments are not in the HTML but in the
stylesheet using server side scripting.

Or am I misremembering what Zach presented a few months ago?

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[mailto:wsuug-bounces at list.wsuug.org] On Behalf Of Jon Zuck
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:53 PM
To: Web Standards and Usability User Group
Subject: Re: [Wsuug] Conditional CSS revisited

It's Browser-Sniffing, 2.0. 

jon

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Jason Wilson
<jason at jasonwilsondesign.com> 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.

	On 16 Sep 2008, at 14:47, Reese 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?

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