I told you so...

Monday 17 October 2005 ◷ 00:28

Shit will hit the fan: The demise of CSS hacks and broken pages. Markus Mielke isn't the sharpest knive in the box, but compared to who he addresses he's a lightsabre. The issue is that when IE7 will be released: "you may notice major sites breaking due to the use of CSS hacks and the strict doctype". For starters I've never understood why anyone would use HTML "strict" in the wild. Using strict has never solved a problem, only increased them, and you'd only want to use it fetishiously. But that alone doesn't cause the problem in IE7. Only when "strict" is combined with hacks! What's the point of strict when combined with hacks? That point logically doesn't exist because of the definitions of "strict" and "hack". So you'd really have to have had your <head> up your RSS for the last couple of years to get into this demise.

Having never released anything in strict or with the use of hacks, I'll just enjoy my Christmas holiday or whenever the Firefox-killer comes out, without having to worry about this.