"Geoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> (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".



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