9 CSS hack in stylesheet – entire stylesheet ignored

Hello!

Just bumped into this effect two days ago: an “9” MSIE CSS hack on a property with a nummerical value without an unit, such as
left: 09;
probably causes an exception in CSS handling so that the contents of the entire stylesheet in question is being ignored in that PD4ML run.
Other CSS – such as that stated in the HTML document, remains unaffected.

Other forms of that hack
left: 0px9;<br /> position: relative9;
seem to be successfully skipped and the rest of stylesheet used as it should.

Since this seems to be a common MSIE CSS hack and entering position:0 is otherwise legal, which leads to higher danger of such a statement in the stylesheet and misrendering of pages, it’d be nice if this form of the hack could be “supported” too.
Of course, it’s an easy way to avoid the problem (and good practice too) to simply always use units. Still it’s a mistake easily done and hard to find in a large stylesheet.

These are test URLs:

One that works: http://bit.ly/WLIlbK

…and one with a small difference… http://bit.ly/VjVwFk

They look the same in web browsers – the difference can be seen in the PD4ML GUI for example.

On a side note – when the shortened URL is called in the GUI, it also delivers the negative answer, even on the OK document (HTML is loaded OK, but attached stylesheet isn’t).
=>Could this be another PD4ML issue – ie. handling URLs with redirects?
When opening the expanded URL in the GUI, they show exactly the effect they should. So please use the expanded URLs for testing.

Note2: It indeed IS an exception, as I noticed in the GUIs console in the process of writing:
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "09"<br /> at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(Unknown Source)<br />
so maybe the fix wouln’t need to specifically address CSS hacks at all, simply making sure an invalid number won’t send the entire stylesheet crashing down would, as a side effect, solve this issue too 😉

Best regards,
Viktor