"M�sl Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Gervase Markham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > You mean the great idea of NutScrap 6 to make any
> > > browser cross compatible solution based on
> > >
> > > if ( document.layers )
> > > { ....NutScrap }
> > > else
> > > { MSIE with document.all }
> > >
> > > obsolet?
> >
> > This was always a stupid solution. What about Opera? And other browsers
> > which may support document.all but not some of the IE document.all
> > features?
>
> The question was not if this was a stupid method or not.
> Most web designers which tried browser compatible solutions
> used this method.
>
> So there are many sites which use this methods
That is also because netscape was the only widely used browser that
completely ignored standards.
You could usually write according to standards, and it would pretty much
work in all browsers except on Netscape.
That was why you had to implement layers for netscape, and document.all for
all the others.
The exception wasn't IE/Opera/Anything else. The exception was Netscape.
