It seems that quite a few people have had problems with the difference
between Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer and inline layers.
Me too.
I wanted to use them to position a series of ButtonImage widgets in a table,
that I wasn't confident that absolute positioning would work for (I really prefer
relative positioning.)
(SIDE NOTE: The reason I like using them is so I can mess around with the
layout of the page and not worry about where the layers will end up, by anchoring
them in a table cell, or other way I get more control. Absolute positioning
requires several things like marginwidth/marginheight, etc to be set as well
as fixed width/height tables to make sure the layers don't wander around the page.
Admittedly a browser resize does send everything haywire.)
It seems dynapi.ext.inline.js only looks for <div></div> tags when running in Explorer
but looks for anything that might be a layer in Netscape, so something with a
style="position: {relative|absolute};"
So the dilemma is this, if I use <div></div> then Netscape forces a line break
between each element (like a <p></p> does) which a <span></span> doesn't,
or if I use <span></span> Explorer breaks (can't find the layer).
The solution I ended up using was to have some server side code (Cold Fusion
in this case) to choose between the two bits of code.
Is there a better way?
(ANOTHER NOTE: Is it just me, or does it take ages for messages to be propagated
through these lists?)
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