Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
by vintagedave on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:21AM
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> IE championed CSS and the DOM. Netscape was fixated on bgcolor, font tags, etc.
Netscape championed its own alternate to CSS: JSSS. Javascript-based Style Sheets.[1] But the W3C went for CSS, so the CSS implementation in Netscape 4 (1997) was very rushed, and poor quality.
This is what led to the @import hack being possible, which used different style sheets for IE and Netscape.[2][3]
Netscape championed its own alternate to CSS: JSSS. Javascript-based Style Sheets.[1] But the W3C went for CSS, so the CSS implementation in Netscape 4 (1997) was very rushed, and poor quality.
This is what led to the @import hack being possible, which used different style sheets for IE and Netscape.[2][3]
[1] https://www.w3.org/submissions/1996/1/WD-jsss-960822
[2] https://litux.nl/mirror/csscookbook/0596005768/cssckbk-CHP-9...
[3] https://tedium.co/2023/11/24/weird-html-hacks-history/