In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mark Anderson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
>> Web developers are mad because they have had to deal with the
>> clusterfuck that is Netscape 4.x for a few years now, and in exchange
>> for their loyal support of that platform, Netscape rips the carpet out
>> from under them rather than provide a real migration path.
>
> Considering Netscape told them over two years ago, I don't think the
> lack of a real migration path is any excuse.
*Were* they told? Or were they expected to find some fine print
somewhere? Were they supposed to >assume< LAYER would evaporate once
Netscape started supporting CSS positioning?
I'm getting a bit tired of these nebulous assertions suggesting that some
announcement was made. I recall no such announcement; I just remember the
LAYER tutorials gradually fading from visibility among the Netscape
developer pages, and perhaps some subtle text in developer docs
indicating that CSS positioning should be preferred.
So where is this deprecation announcement? Is there a press release
somewhere? Is it in the release notes for some version of Communicator
4.x? Is it squirreled away as an addendum to the developer docs? (Note
that LAYER still appears prominently in the online developer
documentation for 4.x.)
You know, I'd *love* to be able to point the folks using LAYER to some
dated statement from Netscape denoting when they got religion and say,
quite reasonably, "You should have known." But I'm coming up emptyhanded
here. Do my search skills just suck, or is this announcement you folks
keep referring to just vapor?
Braden
