Ever used conditional statements/comments in your html? I do, actually, use the technique quite a lot (this site, Flotr). With HTML conditional comments you can detect browser type and version. Now don’t get too excited, because it’s only supported by Internet Explorer 5+ on Windows. Nevertheless, this way of browser detection is really elegant compared to nasty css hacks or javascript user agent detection. This article is shows you how you can use the conditional comments for several handy purposes.

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