Browser Targeted Conditional Comments

Targetting specific browsers with Condtional Comments

[takuhii]

Hi,
Why are Conditional comments IE orientated? I would like to be able to target specific versions of Firefox for a HTML5 project I am working on, how can I say if not Firefox 3.5 then should alternate content?

Any ideas, help would REALLY be appreciated
Darren

[swa66]

Microsoft invented conditional comments. To a real standards compliant browser they are simply and purely comments.

[takuhii]

I see. Is there anyway I could target specific versions of Firefox with specific stylesheets?

Regards
Darren

[tedster]

You could use a javascript browser sniffer, and then use document.write to include the appropriate stylesheet.

You would probably start with one basic stylesheet and then introduce the ones with specific tweaks further along the cascade.

The conditional comment aprpoach was invented by IE because their crippled browser required it so often. firefox is most often quite well behaved so there is no proprietary approach that I know of. There's a very thorough Browser Sniffer post in this thread: [webmasterworld.com...] - that's from 2001, back when we really needed it.

[takuhii]

I was hoping to avoid Javascript, but it is becoming more and more inevitable.

I want to incorporate HTML5 tweaks into some of my pages, but IE is obviously HTML5 mute... So want to provide alternative styling/code...