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IE once again sucks

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On some of our websites, we use conditional comments to control CSS hacks for Internet Explorer. If you create static copies of a website (or mirror), never forget that only IE will follow the @import links inside conditional controls - tools like httrack or wget certainly will not, because they know how to behave! This fact cost me almost an hour today.

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  1. Russell

    Hi there, an old post I know. Did you ever get wget/httrack to fetch IE specific CSS from IE's conditional comments?

  2. Steffen

    Sorry Russell, I did not. If you ever find a solution, please leave a comment about it.

  3. Thomas Worm

    You can use HTTrack's "extended parsing" and put a fake JavaScript in your site. This looks like:


    
	<!-- CSS fixes for IE in offline version -->
    
	<!--[if gte IE 6]>
    
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fileadmin/templates/styles/ie6.css" media="all" />
    
	<![endif]-->
    
	<!--[if gte IE 7]>
    
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fileadmin/templates/styles/ie7.css" media="all" />
    
	<![endif]-->
    
	<!--[if gte IE 9]>
    
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fileadmin/templates/styles/ie9.css" media="all" />
    
	<![endif]-->
    
	<script type="text/javascript">
    
	function fakeForHTTrack() {
    
	location.href = 'fileadmin/templates/datev/styles/ie6.css';
    
	location.href = 'fileadmin/templates/datev/styles/ie7.css';
    
	location.href = 'fileadmin/templates/datev/styles/ie9.css';
    
	}
    
	</script>


    HTTrack then finds the files in the faked JavaScript funktion and will download them. It's a really dirty workaround but it works.