"Geoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > (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.
Well, if Mozilla supported the things NS did support, it would work. But _practically_, that won't happen. > (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? One of Mozilla's (the new one / "Seamonkey", not MozillaClassic) most important aims is standards compliance. Netscape 4's <layer> tag never made it to any standard and never will either because there are better things. > I just don't think that we can teach the world how to be. No, we can't. But we can "try to make a difference".
