Comments on: To Hack With It

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:18:45 +0000

This also triggered in IE7. I don't understand how that could be.

By: graphiceyedea » Blog Archive » IE6? IE7? …to hack or not to hack?… the dreaded question…

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:16:39 +0000

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By: Josh-Kerr.com » IE Sucks

Josh-Kerr.com » IE Sucks — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:24:25 +0000

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By: Nick Gagne

Nick Gagne — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:06:57 +0000

There is a css hack that works for all versions of internet explorer, including ie7. You can read about it here: The IE7 CSS Hack

By: marcus

marcus — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0000

Just an oppinion, but, if Microsoft and it’s IE are making people such a problematic existance for such a long time and with no solid hope for a brighter future, shouldn’t it simply be banned from the market and the users be announced / warned (on MS’s expense, ofcourse) to switch to a BROWSER ? If it would be in my power, that’s what I’d do, with no regrets at all …

By: Michal Tatarynowicz

Michal Tatarynowicz — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:12:44 +0000

It might be a naive question, but what’s wrong with using the !important hack for IE?

margin-left: 150px !important;
margin-left: 75px;

I use it all the time and wouldn’t like to find out it’s a mistake to use this syntax.

By: Joey A. Tyson

Joey A. Tyson — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:35:13 +0000

Wow… I just came across this post, and after reading so much about IE7, conditional comments, etc., it was nice to find someone who put in words exactly what I’ve been thinking. You’re exactly right – keep up the good work.

By: Lawrence Meckan

Lawrence Meckan — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 04:44:58 +0000

I’m finding some designers are mistaking the Tan Hack, along with the fix that is in IE7, for the global white space reset. Not a good thing when the amateur designers misunderstand what is being corrected and what isn’t.

By: netgeek.com » IE7

netgeek.com » IE7 — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 13:48:47 +0000

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By: Jasper Van Proeyen

Jasper Van Proeyen — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:04:51 +0000

The only thing that the IE7 team has to keep in mind is this: follow the W3C standards, plus create an updated version of FrontPage that follows these standards.

Then:
a. amateurs will have the chance of building websites that are W3C compliant.
b. professional webdesigners, like me, will have a job, because “bigger” sites will have to follow these standards too and that’s not as obvious as it seems.

Pure economy!

By: Nas Hashmi

Nas Hashmi — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:18:18 +0000

I noticed that IE7 was out long while before the bloggers wrote about it. I also knew the hacks were not working. While I was learning CSS, i continually went into the source of MSN.com and found that they use the hacks very often in their css file for all sorts of browsers (e.g. safari, ie/mac, ie/win, firefox).

Yet it was peculiar to notice they had a conditional comment for “IE7″ all of a sudden up. (I went into the source continuously, so i noticed changes as well.) I knew then that even the MSN.com team were having trouble as well.

By: iEdML

iEdML — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:16:07 +0000

“It happened a few times at Netscape when I worked there. We were very proactive, offering fixes to sites and working to do as you suggest, and had some internal support for that mission (heck, it was part of why they hired me). But when it came down to it, if a site wouldn”t change and it was big enough, the browser bent to accommodate the site. The same can very easily happen at Microsoft.”

So you mean we may have actually found a situation here where we would cheer on Microsoft to use its monopoly and ignore the rest of the industry?

That’s ironic.

By: Michael Ward

Michael Ward — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:43:52 +0000

Jim, I misphrased my comment – you use the hacks to pass patched up CSS to crap browsers. A good browser will ignore the hack and apply the correct CSS code.

If IE7 fixes its rendering bugs then all the CSS hacks I’ve used (presumably fixed in IE7) will have no effect.

By: Podcast #12 | BrunoTorres.net

Podcast #12 | BrunoTorres.net — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:24:34 +0000

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By: write.myobie.com » Blog Archive » IE 7 will break your site

write.myobie.com » Blog Archive » IE 7 will break your site — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:10:30 +0000

[...] s release or a release date is known. I am not going to waste my time with this. It seems Eric Meyer agrees with me.
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