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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Feb 19, 2004 4:27AM

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Tim Beadle wrote:

> OK - it's called a hack, but it's just using a parsing error in a broken
> browser to solve *real world problems*.

You mean the problems you wanted to create? I'm not sure of what problems
you are referring to now, but the problem with IE's wrong interpretation
of font-size keywords is easily _avoided_ by not using them in the first
place.

> Tantek's hack helps us write valid, standards-
> compliant sites that are so much lighter in page weight terms than the table-
> based equivalent, and accessible too.

Let's see what Google says when I ask
"Tantek's hack"
The first hit is described by Google as follows:

Box Model Hack
Please upgrade to a browser that supports web standards. Box Model
Hack. Boxtest. Here is a sample div with class "boxtest". It has ...
tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html

I think this speaks for itself. The very page that promotes the hack is
clearly optimized for arguing with visitors about their choice of
browser. OK, that was not quite fair, but neither were your comments.

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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