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by mikeash 5166 days ago
Not JSON, but here's a truly horrible example of Internet Explorer using specially formed comments to take different actions: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
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They really aren't that bad, definitely very handy for injecting IE specific stylesheets, without having to rely on javascript.
I'm sure they're handy, but just crashingly inelegant.
Not to mention that the only reason for needing IE specific stylesheets is because IE doesn't follow CSS standards properly!!!
Uh... this was downvoted because? Certainly not because it's wrong.