I would love to know why version 6.0 stopped supporting layers. I know they
Because they are non-standard, not needed, not supported by anything
but NN4 which to many people is too broken to still bother about.
limitations. Right now our advice is to produce sites wich will run on any
4.x
Dear Netscape,
I would love to know why version 6.0 stopped supporting layers. I know they
arent part of any W3C standard but numerous webdesigners have used this
technique in their existing sites and suddenly these sites stop working when
using version 6.0. I am wondering if people would still
I would love to know why version 6.0 stopped supporting layers.
It never "stopped" supporting them. They were never in the plan, and have
been deprecated since Netscape 4 beta something-or-other. They are not
part of any standard.
I know they
arent part of any W3C standard but numerous
If the final built of NS 6.0
would't support layers, it would mean a lot of extra time and money to
rebuilt the existing pages to the standard code so it works. I can imagine
the industry to drop support for NS 6.0 if it means they have
to rebuild their existing pages.
No, what will
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layer support as it existed in version 4.7 and maybe even drop the BLINK
tag wich is far more useless in my opinion. The BLINK tag is not even part
of any standard so its a bit of a contradiction to say that you ONLY
Actually, you'll find this in html.css:
blink {
text-decoration: blink;
}
Yep, sorry. My mistake.
Why do we support BLINK, by the way? It does seem a bit inconsistent.
Gerv
Greg Breland wrote:
If the final built of NS 6.0
would't support layers, it would mean a lot of extra time and money to
rebuilt the existing pages to the standard code so it works. I can imagine
the industry to drop support for NS 6.0 if it means they have
to rebuild their existing
madmax wrote:
Dear Netscape,
This isn't a Netscape group, but Netscape 6 is based on
Mozilla so your post is appropriate enough here.
The BLINK tag is not even part
of any standard so its a bit of a contradiction to say that you ONLY support
standards and therefore stopped supporting
madmax wrote:
Dear Netscape,
I would love to know why version 6.0 stopped supporting layers.
Because Layers are not a part of any HTML specification.
Personally I've never seen a need for using layers on any website that
I've designed.
Actually, I've not needed to go much beyond HTML
Gervase Markham wrote:
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I would love to know why version 6.0 stopped supporting layers.
It never "stopped" supporting them. They were never in the plan, and havebeen deprecated since Netscape 4 beta something-or-other. They are notpart of any standard
What I want to
Gervase Markham wrote:
Actually, you'll find this in html.css:
blink {
text-decoration: blink;
}
Yep, sorry. My mistake.
Why do we support BLINK, by the way? It does seem a bit inconsistent.
Nostalgia. =-]
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