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		thought_alarm on Nov 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) DHTML means using Javascript to animate multiple LAYER tags inside of Netscape Communicator 4. The "D" stands for "Daft".

tclancy on Nov 21, 2021 [–]

Good old document.layers vs document.all. And don’t nest your tables more than seven levels deep or Netscape will explode.

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