Re: HTML Help Please

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: HTML Help Please
Date	2016-05-03 20:17 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-05-03, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <dos6iqFba1mU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Why do you have asterisk characters in front of the display, zoom, and
>> padding-bottom property names?
>
> From http://stackoverflow.com/a/1690689/1491895
>
> It's an Internet Explorer hack. If you add a non-alphanumeric character 
> such as an asterisk (*) immediately before a property name, the property 
> will be applied in IE7 and below, but not in other browsers.

Just for IE 7? What year are we in? 

As of today, IE 7 is used by less than 1% of people:

<http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0>

I'd remove all of that nonsense in favor of clean, valid CSS,
personally.

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JR

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HTML Help Please M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2016-05-03 08:13 -0400
  Re: HTML Help Please Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-05-03 13:35 +0100
    Re: HTML Help Please M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2016-05-03 12:47 -0400
      Re: HTML Help Please Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-05-03 17:51 +0100
        Re: HTML Help Please M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2016-05-03 12:57 -0400
  Re: HTML Help Please Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-05-03 17:06 +0000
    Re: HTML Help Please M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2016-05-03 13:25 -0400
      Re: HTML Help Please Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-05-03 17:48 +0000
        Re: HTML Help Please Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-05-03 14:09 -0400
          Re: HTML Help Please Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-05-03 20:17 +0000
            Re: HTML Help Please Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-05-04 01:32 +0000
      Re: HTML Help Please bubble <bubble@yellowcouch.org> - 2016-05-19 05:40 +0000

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