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The Vanishing Image: XHTML 2 Migration Issues
Subject: Use of Conditional Comments
Date: 2003-07-06 16:17:35
From: MikeyC Cacciottolo
Response to: Use of Conditional Comments
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.

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  • 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

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