Re: Trumping bad proprietary code.

Hi Philip,

If you could get into the proprietary code to (presumably) remove the
offending property, I wouldn't call that "hacking".

But, as many have said here in other threads, the validator is a
guideline, not a law. We know what the purpose of zoom is and
subsequently why your code isn't validating. I personally would be
able to live with that.

Just my 2¢...



On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Philip TAYLOR <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wishing (as always) to keep my sites 100% W3C standards compliant,
> I am stuck with a bad property in proprietary code.  The offending
> rule reads :
>
>         .qmmc {position:relative;zoom:1;}
>
> and so (rather naively) I inserted a later rule in my local
> customisations that reads :
>
>         .qmmc {position:relative}
>
> Unfortunately (of course) the Validator still barfs on the earlier
> entry.  If it had been a bad property value such as "position:
> sideways", I am reasonably confident that a subsequent re-definition
> as "position: relative" would have been fine, in that (presumably but
> not certainly) the validator evaluates the cascade before deciding
> which rules to validate (is this assertion true ?), but given that
> it is not a bad property value but a bad property, is there nothing
> I can do short of hacking proprietary code to make this site valid ?
>
> Philip Taylor
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