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Re the stuff about @-moz-document at the end, does anyone remember exploiting IE bugs in parsing CSS to present different rules for IE vs firefox, especially to

Re the stuff about @-moz-document at the end, does anyone remember exploiting IE bugs in parsing CSS to present different rules for IE vs firefox, especially to work around IE's broken box model? I remember actually using this[0] hack somewhere long ago: div.content { width:400px; voice-family: "\"}\""; voice-family:inherit; width:300px; } I can't believe the stuff we used to go through. [0] http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html

tambourine_man 3y ago
Yes, but than the <!--[if IE]> and friends made those hacks pretty rare.
andrewrice 3y ago
Anyone remember the Meyer CSS reset? https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ Version 1 was published in 2008: /* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ */ /* v1.0 | 20080212 */ html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: 0; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; } body { line-height: 1; } ol, ul { list-style: none; } blockquote, q { quotes: none; } blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after { content: ''; content: none; } /* remember to define focus styles! */ :focus { outline: 0; } /* remember to highlight inserts somehow! */ ins { text-decoration: none; } del { text-decoration: line-through; } /* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */ table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; }

tambourine_man 3y ago

Yes, but than the <!--[if IE]> and friends made those hacks pretty rare.

andrewrice 3y ago

Anyone remember the Meyer CSS reset? https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ Version 1 was published in 2008: /* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ */ /* v1.0 | 20080212 */ html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: 0; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; } body { line-height: 1; } ol, ul { list-style: none; } blockquote, q { quotes: none; } blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after { content: ''; content: none; } /* remember to define focus styles! */ :focus { outline: 0; } /* remember to highlight inserts somehow! */ ins { text-decoration: none; } del { text-decoration: line-through; } /* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */ table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; }