On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:13:17 +0000, Johnny Yen wrote: > "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. > Thanks Johnny,
But ... proprietory or not, standard or not, IE supports them (or at least it can render the pages I mentioned) .. so is there any reason why Moz cannot or should not do so if the necessary code is included? Would it break Moz to do that? Is the coding exercise so difficult? I am sorry if I am talking nonsense here, it is just that, if I am, I would like to understand why. Geoff
