- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 16:45:29 -0400
- To: ed_scott@corp.disney.com, <www-style@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:47 PM 08/10/97 -0800, ed_scott@corp.disney.com wrote: > > I read that the Netscape LAYER tag was turned down by W3C for > inclusion in HTML v4. This seems unfortunate as it was a very > powerful tool for information presentation. See <http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/intro/intro.html#h-2.3.1> for why the LAYER element does not belong in HTML. > From what I can see there > is no other way to do the sorts of thing I want in HTML This is correct. Presentation is best specified in a style sheet, not in HTML. The Positioning extensions of Cascading Style Sheets provide the functionality of Netscape's LAYER element, with the added bonus of support from Microsoft (in addition to Netscape). See <http://www.w3.org/TR/WD- positioning> for more on CSS Positioning. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNDvw6A/JhtXygIx1AQFWsAMAwjkHP69acb/MVO3vcCuthSZNtrgYHDQL j7S2ksW4FmUjRYhqLAtZrL9/McfUc9eRNtVOYQQQPRP14rskgQ2vAK6TGhckmchN avlIqtPfn9zJBKFtThI35SeHiQdSJkJa =prKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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