Netscape Communicator Datasheet (1997)

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Lammy · 6h ago

Meta: I thought this was interesting to look back on since one of its features (Layers / ILayers) came up today in the “Why can't HTML alone do includes?” thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880608

Its JavaScript Style Sheets made me realize why the `<link rel="stylesheet"/>` tag tends to have `type="text/css"`, because in an alternate world it could be `type="text/javascript"` too: https://web.archive.org/web/19970630094623fw_/http://develop...

NetCaster seems to be the cut down remnants of the full Constellation Network User Interface that never shipped, and which MSIE4's Active Desktop seems to be in response to instead of the other way around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34279701

mattl · 6h ago

IIRC Layers (ie. the layer tag) became the div tag FWIW.

perilunar · 3h ago

That was not my recollection. The <div> tag was introduced in HTML 3.2 in January 1997, and the <layer> tag came out in June 1997 with Netscape Navigator 4. So <div> predates <layer> by a good six months, and they co-existed until <layer> was deprecated.

Lammy · 5h ago

fwiw the Communicator documentation does mention <DIV> as a separate thing than <LAYER>/<ILAYER>: https://web.archive.org/web/19970630094713fw_/http://develop...

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Netscape Communicator Datasheet (1997)

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