"Geoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:36:40 +0000, Travis Crump wrote: > > > Geoff wrote: > > (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?
Even though Netscape itself created the Layers in question, they were proprietary to Netscape and are not, as such, a real standard, and so are not supported by Mozilla/N6. This torqued a LOT of people off, because they saw it as a stab in the back by Netscape for not supporting something they, themselves created and was/is widely used. Layers are not bad, just no longer supported. They were quite cool, really. As soon as I caught wind that they were not being supported by N6, I yanked them from all my sites. jy
