[thelist] RE: Layers and wonderful, wonderful Netscape 4.7 with JS disabled

[Ben Gustafson]

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> > I am stacking a bunch of absolutely positioned child
> > layers (using DIV tags) within a relatively positioned
> > parent layer. Only one of child layers is visible. Both
> > the stacking and the visibility work in Netscape 4.7,
> > until I disable JavaScript, in which case all the layers
> > become visible and un-stacked.

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> ooooooooooh, you're going to love this one.  turning off
> javascript also turns off stylesheet support.  why you ask?
> well, because netscape had already invested tons of time
> with their proprietary implementation of stylesheets via
> javascript (jss) and didn't have the time or desire to redo
> their work in order to support the method we've all come to
> use now.  so, they built a stub that translates the css to
> jss internally.  hence, turn off javascript and jss goes
> away meaning no css.
>
> make sense?
>
> .jeff

Thanks, Jeff. I'm afraid it does make sense. You'd think they would have had
the time to gray out the "Enable style sheets" checkbox when you unchecked
the "Enable JavaScript" checkbox, at least to tip you off to this issue. But
nooooo there, too, I guess. OK, no layers for Netscape 4!

--Ben