CSS Hacks - Collection of Articles and Links

I’ve been thinking about CSS hacks lately, so I thought I’d gather together some of the resources I’ve been using and articles I’ve been considering.

• Over on CNET, Michael Meadhra writes (yesterday) CSS: To hack or not to hack. While not introducing much new information, and it’s always useful to consider another professionals thought process and approach. In addition, he makes important reminders, including that our work is it’s highest quality when we

  [think] of design and coding as parts of the same process and [are] willing to go through multiple iterations of the process to refine [our] design. It doesn’t work if you approach coding as the task of precisely implementing a preconceived design.

• Doug Bowman has an article on his stopdesign site entitled Filtering CSS. The article gives some background on CSS hacks and filters, then introduces a new CSS filter that can be used to import a separate style sheet for IE5/Mac, named the IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter.
• Molly Holzschlag’s piece for informIT, Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management is definitely worth reading.
• No hack list would be complete without at least a passing mention of Tantek’s Box Model Hack. Turns out I don’t use it that often, but you still gotta have it in your toolbox.
• If you’re not using del.icio.us, you definitely should be. Either way, you can find more CSS hack info in their collection: http://del.icio.us/tag/css-hacks
• In addition to those articles, there are a bunch of quality resources too: Centricle’s CSS Filters (css hacks) compatibility grid, Dithered’s CSS Filters main page, and the always useful CSS-Discuss Wiki has a dedicated page: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHack. If you still need more, there are about a quarter-million here.

Enjoy.