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 use a browser that
doesn't work with existing pages. As a webdesigners we have to advise
clients on standards and the possibilities that are within these standards
limitations. Right now our advice is to produce sites wich will run on any
4.x and higher version browser. Of course we use techniques that aren't
standarised just to make them look better but as long as they run in these
browsers it doesnt matter to our clients. 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. So as you might have guessed, my advise is to add
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 support
standards and therefore stopped supporting layers. Maybe adding the A:HOVER
pseudo-class to CSS would be a good idea as well since its far more
funtional than the earlier mentioned BLINK tag.
Mark Copal
webdesigner
- I really hope, for the sake of humanity, that someone important read what
I just typed. -
