I'm using OmniFaces conditionalComment to load a javascript file for IE 6 browsers. On the webiste it says the script should be included in the page as:
<script type="text/javascript" src="[JS library]"></script>
<!--[if (gte IE 6)&(lte IE 8)]>
<script type="text/javascript" src="selectivizr.js"></script>
<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="[fallback css]" /></noscript>
<![endif]-->
This is not valid xml, so can't be used in the JSF xhtml files. Instead I use this:
<h:body>
<f:facet name="last">
<o:conditionalComment if="if (gte IE 6)&(lte IE 8)">
<h:outputScript library="js" name="selectivizr-min.js" target="head"/>
</o:conditionalComment>
</f:facet>
...
</h:body>
I include the script in the body part of the xhtml and put it in the facet name="last", so it is included after JQuery (I use PirmeFaces and read that's the safest way to do that). target="head" ensures that it is written to the head section of the resulting html file. The link to the script is included in the correct part of the document (after the PrimeFaces imports), but it is not surrounded by the conditional comments.
Here is the relevant part of the html (reformatted for easier reading):
<head>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/javax.faces.resource/theme.css.xhtml?ln=primefaces-aristo" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/javax.faces.resource/primefaces.css.xhtml?ln=primefaces&v=5.1" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/javax.faces.resource/jquery/jquery.js.xhtml?ln=primefaces&v=5.1"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/javax.faces.resource/primefaces.js.xhtml?ln=primefaces&v=5.1"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/javax.faces.resource/jquery/jquery-plugins.js.xhtml?ln=primefaces&v=5.1"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/javax.faces.resource/omnifaces.js.xhtml?ln=omnifaces"></script>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/javax.faces.resource/styles.css.xhtml?ln=css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/javax.faces.resource/selectivizr-min.js.xhtml?ln=js"></script>
The last line is missing the comments (!--[if (gte IE 6)&(lte IE 8)]> ...).
What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
Cheers, Dominik