IE conditional comments not taken into account

[tomlankhorst]

Magento adds some compatibility styles with additional parameters for older IE versions. I.e. in app/design/adminhtml/default/default/layout/main.xml on line 86 and further:

<action method="addItem"><type>skin_css</type><name>iestyles.css</name><params/><if>lt IE 8</if></action>
<action method="addItem"><type>skin_css</type><name>below_ie7.css</name><params/><if>lt IE 7</if></action>
<action method="addItem"><type>skin_css</type><name>ie7.css</name><params/><if>IE 7</if></action>

When these 'items' are put at the end of the HTML output, their IE conditional comments are not respected. This leads to parsing of IE styles in non-IE browsers.

[bobbyshaw]

Hi @tomlankhorst. Thanks for your report. I notice that the path you mention is for admin. I don't think I made this module functional in the admin area, is this something that you have implemented?

I do remember working on adding compatibility with IE comments on the frontend though. There is at least a portion of the regex set out for it: https://github.com/bobbyshaw/magento-footer-js/blob/master/src/app/code/community/Meanbee/Footerjs/Helper/Data.php#L6

Do you have the same problem on the frontend? If so, can you share your magento version please?

Another route to a solution: I think these IE browsers are old enough that you won't need to be supporting them any more.