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Posted by Andy Fish on November 30, 2004, 10:19 am
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Looking at an HTML document recently, I found this syntax which was
completely new to me
<![if !supportAnnotations]>
<style>...</style>
<![endif]>
it looks to be some kind of conditional logic but it's not in a javascript
block, just in the normal HTML markup. none of by browsers took exception to
it
there was no attempt to define or set the variable "supportAnnotations"
anywhere, so I'm not sure if it's referencing some built-in variable or
what.
Can anyone point me at anything which explains this syntax?
TIA
Andy
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Posted by Leif K-Brooks on November 30, 2004, 6:16 am
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Andy Fish wrote:
> Looking at an HTML document recently, I found this syntax which was
> completely new to me
>
> <![if !supportAnnotations]>
> <style>...</style>
> <![endif]>
It's proprietary garbage invented by Microsoft which will only work in
their so-called Web browser. You shouldn't try to use it on the public
Internet.
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Posted by paul haine on December 1, 2004, 5:03 pm
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> Andy Fish wrote:
>> Looking at an HTML document recently, I found this syntax which was
>> completely new to me
>>
>> <![if !supportAnnotations]>
>> <style>...</style>
>> <![endif]>
>
> It's proprietary garbage invented by Microsoft which will only work in
> their so-called Web browser. You shouldn't try to use it on the public
> Internet.
Using a form of these conditional comments is very useful for filtering
hacks or content to specific versions of Internet Explorer, though:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
Validates, and all non-IE browsers will ignore it.
--
paul haine
http://joeblade.com/
http://design.joeblade.com/
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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on December 5, 2004, 11:59 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, paul haine wrote:
> >> <![if !supportAnnotations]>
> >> <style>...</style>
> >> <![endif]>
>
> Using a form of these conditional comments
Petitio principii. The above are not "comments", not in HTML, not in
SGML.
> is very useful for filtering
> hacks or content to specific versions of Internet Explorer, though:
>
> http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
Fairynuff, but the cited URL refers to
|| <!--[if IE]>
> Validates,
Don't you see the difference?
> and all non-IE browsers will ignore it.
The latter form is a comment, right.
The cited form, if it happens to validate, is sheer happenstance.
Lord knows what an SGML browser would make of it.
Where's Arjun Ray when we need him? ;-)
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Posted by Jan Roland Eriksson on December 6, 2004, 3:10 am
Please log in for more thread options On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:59:18 +0000, "Alan J. Flavell"
[...]
>Where's Arjun Ray when we need him? ;-)
Good question, and I would be the first to really applaud his
reappearance here.
From what I know, in concentrated form...
Arjun had his company office on the south end of Manhattan.
When the twin towers fell down, his point of business became isolated
south of the street that the US authorities decided to use as a
"terrorist" border line (and that included total electronic isolation).
Suffice to say that Arjun lost all contact with his present, and future
potential, clients because of this, and he had to close down his
operation.
He managed to moved some of the more important records over to his own
apartment located straight east and over the water from his Manhattan
office, but basically; since the authorities did not even give
permission for him to visit his own office, he was stumped.
I have no accurate knowledge of his whereabouts today; last record I
could find on Usenet is in rec.pets.cats.*
(Arjun loves Cats as "mans best friend" and so do I, so we do have that
in common at least)
--
Rex
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