PUBLIC MARKS from holyver with tags browser & css

In the second part of his series, Simon Griffin delves into the specifics of what IE7 means for your page content and styling.

Multiple versions of Explorer for Windows on a single computer have revolutionized CSS bug testing for websites, but sadly the different IE browser windows appear identical to the eye, potentially leading to confusion and testing mistakes. Also, Microsoft's proprietary Conditional Comments don't operate properly on these standalones, making advanced usage of CC's a guessing game. These problems have now been resolved! But first, a little background regarding the standalones.

Now that IE7 has been released and has begun to penetrate into the userbase, it won't be too long before we can start using more advanced CSS in our pages. Two of the most useful items will be the Child and Adjacent Sibling combinators. These were briefly covered in a couple of Adrian Senior's articles on the Child combinator and Sibling combinator. But now that it is about to become feasible to use them for real web pages, it is time to delve more deeply into the subject.

Les commentaires conditionnels sont de plus en plus souvent utilisés comme substituts aux hacks CSS afin de gérer les défauts d'implémentation CSS d'IE 5.x et 6.0 Windows. Leur usage est également préconisé par Microsoft en prévision des changements apportés par IE7. Voici un rappel des différentes possibilités offertes par ces commentaires et des syntaxes à utiliser dans le contexte de documents HTML et XHTML1.0 traités en tant que text/html.