Netscape 6 and DHTML

Precisely: NN6 does not support the layer object, and the layer tag is not 
supported as well.
Weird? it is. The good news is that both IE5 and NN6 support a new dom 
(diference is, although, that despite NN6 doesn't support its previous 
version sintax document.layers, IE5 does support its previous version's 
sintax document.all) which resorts to:
document.getElementById("DIVnameHere")

I thought it was well known by now.
Useless to say that as far as other properties of the new unified Dom are 
concerned or might be, we are still waiitng for a book to reveal them to 
us; W3C web site is not at all user-friendly to find them out, and of 
course doesn't ecplain them in the same way a whole book devoted to the 
subject would.
It's a brand new world out there. Bad news, users as well as you will keep 
ignoring it, so all these new wonderful feratures like XML will be used 
extensively not before... 6 years at least. We still have users that go 
around with NN3,. and even with IE2. I'm afraid, blame Netscape for this: 
it took a lot of time and finally elected a unified DOM that did not 
support the oldest Dom in order to speed up the process: they took over 
Mozilla engine, and it did not consider layers, of course, as it was a 
propietary tag.
Life cannot be easy, we're here as a punishment.


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