CSS Hacks
December 14th, 2007 Posted in CSS, Web Design“But the fact remains that every browser out there has its quirks, and while problems should generally be dealt with by amending your design on a global basis, sometimes that’s not possible or practical” - .net mag.
I couldn’t disagree more. The fact is that browser standards will never improve if the attitude of web professionals is that hacks are ‘designed to cater for browser shortcomings’.
All that happens is that the web site becomes complex (with loads of horrible mark-up) and the vendor has to keep the rendering bug in order to make sure they don’t break old web sites.
There is a really good argument against using hacks on Digital Web by Peter-Paul Koch. He also writes and maintains the brilliant Quirksmode.org web site.