So you were capable of doing this in IE3? I'd pay money to see that.

IE4. Yes.

You just needed to remember to use DIVs for IE and Layers for Netscape 3. This sort of thing was actually easier back then.

This thread made me all nostalgic for the early days of DHTML, so I went back and resurrected my old IE4/NN3 Joust Clone:

http://www.jasonkester.com/joust/

For the record, that was 1998, not 1996, so I was off by a couple years in my earlier remark. I've taken the liberty of updating it so that it works in FireFox and Chrome now. (Sadly, sacrificing the document.all and document.Layers action that made it so great!)

We could have done this 1,000 years ago. The laws of physics haven't changed.

This UI design is progress.

For what it's worth, it never occurred to me that this was supposed to be an innovative new UI metaphor. I just assumed that the author was proud of himself for discovering element.scrollTo().

As noted above, it's not a good UI, nor is it revolutionary or even new. So I guess I have to argue that it is not, in fact, progress.