> 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 and higher version browser. Of course we use techniques that aren't
You now have the unique opportunity to ditch the "both browsers,
country and western" mind-set and start producing pages which just
_work_. Simply write HTML4/CSS2 as documented by W3C.
> 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
This wouldn't have happened if you did it the right way from the start.
Btw. how do your pages work with MSIE which never had layers?
> 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
A:HOVER works in Mozilla. A nice opportunity to remove all those
annoying onmouseover/onmouseout scripts.
Olaf
