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Re: RE: Including conditional comments in your XForm?

Posted by Erik Bruchez on Dec 11, 2008; 9:30pm
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Including-conditional-comments-in-your-XForm-tp41984p41986.html

>> I agree, I prefer CSS over conditional includes, seems less of a  
>> hack and more of a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist
>
> I agree that the problem shouldn't exist, but Microsoft and IE being  
> the way they are, it does exist and thus has to be dealt with until  
> such a time when hell freezes over and MS decides to play nice and  
> support standards. I'm not holding my breath. ;-)

I think Ryan and myself were not denying the problem, but just saying  
that there are other ways, besides conditional includes, to address  
it, namely CSS hacks.

> You can specify any number of arbitrary string substitutions this  
> way, in the web.xml file.  You just have to make sure the param name  
> part after the from./to. (ie6png in the above example)  matches up  
> and is unique for every particular substitution pair.
>
> So now I don't much care if whether the problem should exist or  
> not.....it's well and truly resolved, despite Microsoft's best  
> efforts. ;-)


Thanks for sharing!

-Erik

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