Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
Teaching CSS hacks without context
Looking through the popular links on del.icio.us I found a page of tips for CSS: CSS Hacks & Issues.
Most of the tips are useful, if a little familiar by now, but their first one bugged me: Browser-Specific selectors. As you’ve probably inferred, it shows you how to use CSS hacks in order to provide browser-specific code. My problem is this: many people - myself included - think you shouldn’t use CSS hacks.
It’s an ongoing argument, but certainly in the case of Internet Explorer there’s no need for hacks when you can use conditional comments.
I think that if you’re teaching how to use CSS hacks, at the very least you should be linking to the arguments against their use.