The first, and hopefully last, time I've used this particular "feature"

[spudtater]

/* -------------- IE5 HACKS USING CSS PARSING BUG --------------- */
*html #side {
	position: absolute;
	top: 78px;
	left: 585px;
	margin: 0;	
	voice-family: "\"}\""; /* Parsing bug -- IE5 terminates */
	voice-family: inherit;
	position: static;
	margin-left: 567px;
}

Comments

[wee0ne.livejournal.com]

god - that's just one of many

IE 6 hacks
IE for mac hacks

... done them all...

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, there's two hacks in the above CSS...
I almost don't even think of *html as a hack now.   8^)

[shoeareyou.livejournal.com]

excuse me? what does that actually do? - terminates IE?
cleanly?

also, why hasn't it been fixed?

and secondly, why would you want to use that instead of the regular close page methods?

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

No, it just registers as a "close bracket" for IE5.5; thus any CSS that follows is not seen by that browser.

> also, why hasn't it been fixed?

Errr... you do realise we are talking about Microsoft here, right?

Anyway, as far as Microsoft are concerned, it has been fixed — all you have to do is to upgrade to IE6 (or preferably IE7)!

[shoeareyou.livejournal.com]

lol okay; i guess that does make it a useful feature, for screening out ie5 [l]users.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Well, usually you don't want to screen them out, just show them a somewhat more crippled version of the page.