- From: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 17:13:09 -0400
- To: ed_scott@corp.disney.com
- CC: www-style@w3.org
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. From what I can see there > is no other way to do the sorts of thing I want in HTML and I will be > forced to consider a slower to load approach that requires a plugin. > If I am wrong and there are ways to dynamically manage layered images > in the HTML v4 draft please tell me what I am not seeing. Take a look at the absolute positioning proposal (CSS-P). It has the same functionality as the layer tag, but has the advantage that the HTML tag space doesn't get more complex. Doug -- Doug Rand drand@sgi.com Silicon Graphics/SSO http://reality.sgi.com/drand Disclaimer: These are my views, SGI's views are in 3D
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