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mikeash
on May 1, 2012
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Douglas Crockford: Why I removed comments from JSO...
Not JSON, but here's a truly horrible example of Internet Explorer using specially formed comments to take different actions:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
devicenull
on May 1, 2012
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They really aren't that bad, definitely very handy for injecting IE specific stylesheets, without having to rely on javascript.
mikeash
on May 1, 2012
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I'm sure they're handy, but just crashingly inelegant.
chris_wot
on May 1, 2012
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Not to mention that the only reason for needing IE specific stylesheets is because IE doesn't follow CSS standards properly!!!
chris_wot
on May 1, 2012
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Uh... this was downvoted because? Certainly not because it's wrong.
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