NN6 and layers

Are many of you testing your pages in Netscape 6 beta? NN6's rendering
engine will be used for Netscape's future releases, and anything else that
uses this engine (like a future AOL browser (10% to 20% of surfers)).

The reason I ask is... layers. Until recently the two major browsers handled
layers differently. Netscape 4+ used a "layer" tag around the content, while
IE4+ put a span or div around the content and used a stylesheet to assign it
a z-level.

To work around this, I used a browser sniffer and had a NN version and an IE
version of these pages.

Now I see NN6 fails on the Netscape-layers version, but works correctly on
the IE-stylesheet version! Is this right? Has Netscape given up on its
"layer" tag, and followed IE (and W3C) on this? Causing me to do even more
browser sniffing, so I can send NN6 to the IE version of the page? Argh!

I can't be the only one running into this...

Thanks in advance for any helpful comments,
Jim Allen

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