Background Graphics not visible in OmniWeb

[John Soward]

Steven Buechler writes:
>I think BACKGROUND is a purely Netscape extension to HTML and is
>not in the current HTML3.0 spec. Tables are part of HTML3.0,
>although Netscape's tables have attributes not found in the 3.0
>spec.  There is quite a bit in the (still under development)
>HTML3.0 spec not supported by Netscape.

background is in the current 3.0 spec listed at www.w3.org. I haven't
reviewed everything that Netscape 1.1b2 has added to table (other than 3d)
but they seem to have most of the stuff listed in the spec.

>        There are many features to HTML3.0 I look forward to
>seeing supported in the standard browsers; e.g., tables, math,
>text flow around inline images, style sheets, ...  I would much
>rather see Omni and other developers work towards implimenting
>these features than react to Netscape's extensions.

I'm certainly against letting netscape lead the way and everyone playing
catch-up...the '3d' tables, flash, etc. I could live without...tables in
general, the background stuff, those would be nice, and are looking to be
somewhat 'standard' ...the push-pull stuff, which is a netscape gadget, I
could really use, I dunno if they have chosen the best way to implement it,
but some way to at least request that the client re-load at an interval
would be very useful.



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