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From: Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Stupid Question
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:34:21 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:53:26 -0700, Robert Baer wrote:

>>> <!--[if lt IE 11]>
>>> <img src="images/SLIDER1.JPG" alt="Codatron&trade;">
>>> <![else]
>>> <img src="images/Codatron.png" alt="Codatron&trade;"> <![endif]-->

>    Just to be clear on that [if lt IE 11] code snippet, the top part
> gets "executed" if true (meaning if ANY version of IE is the rendering
> browser), the bottom part gets "executed" if false (meaning ALL other
> browsers).

Not strictly true.

Non IE browsers have no reason to pay any attention whatsoever to any of 
the html comment between <!-- and -->

Firefox, for example, just sees a single html comment.

Rgds

Denis McMahon