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The Vanishing Image: XHTML 2 Migration Issues
Subject: Use of Conditional Comments
Date: 2003-07-05 04:38:08
From: Florian Bauer
Response to: Use of Conditional Comments
That is strange:
Here is my example:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de">
<head>
</head>
<body>


<!--[if !IE]> -->
IE doesn't see this.
<!-- <![endif] -->


</body>
</html>


I checked this with ie6 on winxp, and ie5.5 on win98, both in the german version.
I also tried your example and the conditional comments do also work there.
strange...
cheers
Florian

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  • Use of Conditional Comments
    2003-07-06 16:17:35 MikeyC Cacciottolo [Reply]

    I just realized something else. The example we've been playing with thus far uses a transitional doctype as it doesn't validate using a strict doctype. Something about character data not being allowed there according to the validator.


    XHTML 2 won't have a transitional mode (as far as I'm aware), so it seems that you can't use conditional comments anyways to deal with IE's broken Object support.


    Please correct me if I'm wrong.

    • Re: Use of Conditional Comments
      2003-10-16 18:09:25 Lenny D [Reply]

      "I just realized something else. The example we've been playing with thus far uses a transitional doctype as it doesn't validate using a strict doctype. Something about character data not being allowed there according to the validator."


      XHTML does not allow character data at the <body> level. It must be within a block level element such as

      .



  • Use of Conditional Comments
    2003-07-05 11:25:34 MikeyC Cacciottolo [Reply]

    I've isolated the problem. Your original example was:
    <!-- [if !IE] -->
    <object></object>
    <!-- <![endif] -->


    Your follow-up example was (notice there is no space before the opening bracket of the if statement):


    <!--[if !IE] -->
    <object></object>
    <!-- <![endif] -->


    Your second example is indeed correct. Why do trhings have to be so confusing ;)


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