@Chris Hunt: I’m not sure I follow your P.S. objection to conditional comments (CCs).
I use a standard stylesheet which works for real browsers, and a second stylesheet containing IE-specific fixes. The IE-fixup stylesheet is hauled in using a link element inside a CC, to save real browsers the trouble of downloading it.
The CC adds exactly 32 characters (including whitespace) to each page, which is hardly “cluttering”, given that the link element necessary to bring in the fixup stylesheet is already 48 characters plus the length of the value of the href attribute. And all my fixes remain in one place.
Nick Fitzsimons
@Chris Hunt: I’m not sure I follow your P.S. objection to conditional comments (CCs).
I use a standard stylesheet which works for real browsers, and a second stylesheet containing IE-specific fixes. The IE-fixup stylesheet is hauled in using a link element inside a CC, to save real browsers the trouble of downloading it.
The CC adds exactly 32 characters (including whitespace) to each page, which is hardly “cluttering”, given that the link element necessary to bring in the fixup stylesheet is already 48 characters plus the length of the value of the href attribute. And all my fixes remain in one place.