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
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
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
IIRC Layers (ie. the layer tag) became the div tag FWIW.
fwiw the Communicator documentation does mention <DIV> as a separate thing than <LAYER>/<ILAYER>: https://web.archive.org/web/19970630094713fw_/http://develop...