On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:36:40 +0000, Travis Crump wrote: > Geoff wrote: > >>Unfortunately, so far as needing to fire up other browsers to view pages >>is concerned, my experience is obviously different from yours. I don't >>expect you to spend time visiting these sites, but to take just two >>recent examples : >> >>http://www.abit.com.tw/ >> > bad browser sniffing, it is pretending that Mozilla is NS4 which is bad. > Mozilla is not compatible with NS4, it is compatible with the current > standards.. It also uses layers which is also very bad. > >>http://www.pcworld.co.uk >> >>If I mouse over the main purple menu on the left hand side under >>Departments I get a pop up alert "1 exceeds the number of menu layers" >> > Also uses layers which is bad, is not a standard and will never be > supported by Mozilla... > > Thanks for looking at these Travis. Can you (or anyone), answer a couple of questions please?
(1) Am I right in thinking that there is nothing that Moz could ever do to correct the bad sniffing problem? In other words, if a site sends stuff that is obviously intended for NS is there simply no way that Moz could default to NS behaviour - not even with a whole lot of extra code? I am asking a theoretical question here, not necessarily a practical one. (2) What is "bad" about layers? Are they in some sense dangerous (which seems unlikely to me, but maybe I am wrong), or do they simply offend some programming paradigm? Why, in other words, is it (apparently) an article of faith that Moz will never support them? Could they not be supported with a warning, or optionally supported, or any damn thing that keeps me from having to fire up a different browser? I just don't think that we can teach the world how to be. Thanks, Geoff
