Zen gardener Dave Shea’s post Bye Bye Tan Hack attracted a number of comments from people claiming that Internet Explorer’s conditional comments (CCs) were ungeneratable if you are using XSLT to produce your pages. “Strange,” I thought, “I’ve done that before.”
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I wasn’t able to make it to @media, but I did travel down to London for the JavaScript get-together in the Old Thameside Inn on Saturday afternoon. Peter K of Quirksmode had an agenda of three primary items which he anticipated eight or nine JavaScript geeks turning up to discuss; the actual figures were nearer the 30 mark, and a lot of the attendees were from the design community, so the first two parts of the meeting were instead devoted to the primary question that @media had brought up: how to get the message about the correct use of scripting out to the larger community who are already working with standards-based HTML/CSS techniques, and now want to get into the possibilities they’ve perceived through offerings like GMail and Google Maps.
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The Web Standards Group presented ten questions to Tommy Olsson, one of which addresses the thorny issue of the abbr and acronym elements in HTML.
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