I am not liking Netscape 4.x very much - all the lovely sites I design with Layers just display very very badly on NS for Linux. NS6 is a LOVELY web browser... just waiting for a new release and I'm away with IE5 as my default browser (on Windows, anyway!).
Netscape's implementation of layers (and other CSS features) has always been a bit dubious. You'll have the same problems with IE5 on Windows vs IE5 on the Mac. There just isn't much consistency between the same browsers for different platforms, let alone across different browsers. It stems from the application developers using features of the underlying GUI API; if a feature doesn't exist they either don't implement what they want to, or they botch around it as best they can. Things like positioning a layer outside of it's containing browser window can be done on some platforms but not on others. We still need a standard, and although Mozilla is coming along, IE5 is the defacto standard at the moment. This won't remain the position, especially when users start accessing the web with devices other than PCs, but it'll take ages for Microsoft to adapt IE5 to the W3C standards - if they ever capitulate and do so at all. In the meantime, users complain and web developers suffer. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/