IE 5.5 Warning: CSS and comment tags

Hello;

Had a client 'upgrade' (and I use the term loosely) to IE 5.5 over the weekend
and suddenly all the typography on their site was broken.

It seems that in IE 5.5 you cannot put a comment tag in your .css files that
begins with // like commonly used for javascript comments.
They must instead begin with /* and end with */

so something like:

// this sets up the site's basic typeography

has to become:

/* this sets up the site's basic typography */


Just thought I'd inform people who didn't know this. I've got to revise a few
sites now before IE 5.5 spreads too far...

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