Re: [Sheflug] Hypercard

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> Layering is supported in HTML via stylesheets, if you use CSS2 - I was
> looking at this at work today as I may need to use it soon. See the CSS spec
> at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#q30 (part 9.9: Layered
> Presentation). Not quite sure what you mean by "background fields" though :)
> Maybe more forms stuff. HMTL 4 with CSS2 is pretty powerful in what you can
> do with layout.

All very well for writing it, but show me a browser that actually renders
it right. Most browsers have half-decent CSS1 support these days, but CSS2
with it's rather ambitious layout demands is a way off being widely
supported.

Netscape 4.x: partial CSS1
Konqueror: CSS1, partial CSS2
Mozilla: CSS1, partial CSS2
Opera: CSS1, almost complete CSS2
IE: CSS1, partial (full?) CSS2

There are others (a few Java embedded browsers notably e.g. ICE, Fresco)
that have some CSS support, but they aren't widely used.

Basically CSS2 could have done with being half the size it is. Most of the
features are not used and it's been a reccomendation for a couple of years
now. Typical example of W3C and design by commitee.

> graphics depending on the state of a system at that location. The only other
> way to do it is have the map as the background image, and overlay the table
> on that - but that's really icky.

You SHOULD be able to use <TABLE BACKGROUND="Image"> (or thereabouts), but
unfortunately Netscape decided they would implement the background as
tiled in every cell, so it's effectively useless.

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