<quote who="Arthur Barton">

> Is this some inherent netscape thing? I was under the impression that
> netscape 4 had layers before they became standard, (and perhaps foolishly)
> assumed that they would keep up the trend.


Netscape "DHTML" and IE "DHTML" are entirely different beasts. You will have
an absolute dog of a time making pages that work across many different
browsers, platforms, etc. Your best hope is to use a templating system, one
template for each browser, and let a stub script choose the appropriate
template after it detects the browser and then fill it from the database.

Yes, to achieve a 100% website functionality success rate, you will be
writing different web pages for every browser. Refer to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ and http://developer.netscape.com/


Opinion:

  If there are people on the other end of this website you care about, or
  are an audience of people from whom you wish to take money (this is the
  web, isn't it?) then STAY AWAY FROM THIS EVIL, EVIL stuff.

  It's unnecessary fluff and you'll end up redesigning it when the
  complaints start rolling in.


Humourously enough, you get a bonus relevant opinion in the random sig
below.

- Jeff (who will indeed buy a drink for the first person to tell me I
  replied to the offtopic post. Apologies, etc.)


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