CrocoDillon

# June 21, 2013 at 8:18 am

If Jonathan’s comment is what @ananda is after not, but he/she is awfully quiet :P

Hugo Giraudel

# June 21, 2013 at 8:32 am

Well, it kind of is. Actually it really depends on how would you define a CSS hack.

If a hack is using something not on its principal purpose, then the following snippet definitely is one:

_::-ms-reveal, .selector { }

This doesn’t aim at styling the eye-input pseudo-element but the .selector element only for browsers which understand the eye-input pseudo-element. So ::-ms-reveal acts as a filter, not as a regular CSS selector.

Paulie_D

# June 21, 2013 at 8:40 am

It’s a pseudo class isn’t it, so it’s not a hack to use it.

Hugo Giraudel

# June 21, 2013 at 8:43 am

Pseudo-element: http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-FR/library/windows/apps/hh465773.aspx.

Paulie_D

# June 21, 2013 at 8:44 am

Oops yes element not class.

Dammed autocorrect :-)

VoxGabrieli

# June 30, 2013 at 4:26 am

bon! :)

gcyrillus

# June 30, 2013 at 3:35 pm

maybe not useful anymore :

 :before, :after  {content:'IE8 ...'}

::before, ::after {content:'Not IE8 !' }

Hugo Giraudel

# June 30, 2013 at 5:12 pm

Hey, nice catch. Not sure we can do much with this but I’ll keep this in mind. ;)

gcyrillus

# June 30, 2013 at 5:28 pm

It could be an alternative for (playing around with layout, position and z-index)

• multiple background (at least 2 extras) injected via url() for IE8
• or background-size : cover/contain
• box-shadow from png
• whatever else

Still kind of late to talk about it :)