Cleaning up hacks

Cleaning up hacks – I have seen few posts mentioning this. My answer is Surgical Correction Strategy. This involves having one hack free style sheet that you can use with browsers that work and then have others for the ones that don’t (IE5-6 are the ones I generally try and support). If a new browser comes out that supports the standards properly then it isn’t a problem as the ‘clean’ style sheet works anyway and the hacks are ignored!

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