CSS hacks and filters (was RE: [thelist] NN4.x and IE4.x)

rudy rudy937 at rogers.com
Fri Jul 25 17:27:06 CDT 2003


nice article, craig

> First, I'd suggest avoiding what I call "CSS hacks" (i.e., the ones that
> exploit a bug in the browsers rendering engine), and encourage the use
> of "CSS filters" (i.e., the ones that exploit a CSS feature a browser
> has yet to support) whenever possible.

well, i'm certainly not going to quibble about the difference

not when it gets me off the hook, eh

i've always been somewhat uncomfortable ragging on people for using css
hacks when i myself depend on @import to kep ver 4 browsers from barfing

you're saying @import is a filter and not a hack?

woohoo!!


rudy
http://rudy.ca/
xhtml 1 strict
css now totally hack-free!!



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