Use of Conditional Comments

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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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