- From: Tommi Lahtonen <tjlahton@mit.jyu.fi>
 - Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:34:56 +0300 (EEST)
 - To: www-html@w3.org
 
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote:
>   Believe me, it is perfectly possible to write documents that
>   - use "latest" features like ECMAScript ("JavaScript"), Java Applets, SVG
>   Graphics and CSS Level 2 Layout
>   - are fully backwards compatible to nearly every browserą
>   - display great on new browsers and old browsers
>   - display great on text browsers like Lynx or w3m
>   - look as if they had frames in IE5, 5.5, 6 and Netscape6 / Mozilla with the
>   use of the CSS Level 2 overflow property though they do not use the Frameset
>   document type, so they are viewable with browsers that aren't capable of
>   displaying frames
This sounds interesting. Do you have any examples of this frame-like
behavior with this overflow property? So far I have managed to make
frame-like navigation bars with fixed positioning (CSS2) but it doesn't 
work in IE5 or IE5.5. I haven't tested IE6 yet. My example:
http://appro.mit.jyu.fi/2001/syksy/propedeuttinen/
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Tommi Lahtonen, tjlahton@mit.jyu.fi, <URL: http://www.iki.fi/hazor/>
I do not fear computers.  I fear the lack of them.  -- Isaac Asimov
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