Hi.
I love this idea, it's inventive and the need is there.
The only feedback I have is that CSS that depends on JS will absolutely
not fly where I work and play.
---->Nathan
> Feedback desired:
>
> Lately, I have been developing CSS and HTML for a deep Web
> 2.0 complex app. Usually, I avoid CSS hacks like the plague.
> But recently, I have had to resort to the Holly Hack or the
> StarHTML Hack. But then it occured to me that jQuery
> provides a better way.
>
> A simple plugin could be written (has this already been
> written?) that tags the BODY (or other node) with a "browser
> class" resulting in:
> <body class="FF"> or <body class="IE6"> or <body class="Saf">
> or whatever. Then your CSS would be:
>
> body.ie6 div.troublesome {height: 100%} rather than
> * html div.troublesome etc
>
> This makes your CSS avoid bizarre invalid hacks and use
> normal "conditional" classes that are self-documenting.
> Everyone knows that body.IE6 means you are adjusting for
> browser differences. And jQuery is much better at detection
> than crazy hacks.
>
> I wish all my CSS could do it right and find the common
> ground that all the browsers love. But this seems like a better way.
>
> What is your opinion?
>
> Anyone want to write a plugin that allows for $("body").browserTag()?
> Personally, I think this would be a cool thing in the
> basecode, but I wont push it.
>
> Glen
>
