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The Marquee Element
- raldi 4y agoOn my iPhone, the one that says direction="down" behavior="alternate" doesn't bounce up and down; it bounces horizontally.
- arghwhat 4y agoYeah it doesn't seem to handle nested marquees, only respecting the inner one...
- raldi 4y agoOh, I guess the intended behavior is for it to bounce like the DVD logo.
- sangeeth96 4y agoCorrect. Works fine on Chrome/Firefox on macOS. Though, I notice that the animation on Firefox isn't smooth.
- LukeBMM 4y agoAn example, which sounds like it won't work on iOS. https://codepen.io/LukeAtWork/pen/JjYXdbN https://codepen.io/LukeAtWork/pen/JjYXdbN
- uneekname 4y agoI understand why the marquee element is deprecated, but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for it. When I was in middle school I spent a lot of time geocaching, and the first person to find a new cache would often get their username in a marquee on the cache's page. It was fun way to celebrate each other when the geocaching website only supported HTML input.
- hnlmorg 4y agoI must be one of the few days old timers (my first web site went live in 1994) who doesn’t miss the marquee element. Always hated. Hated <blink> too. There’s lots I don’t like about modern web development but the depreciation of marquee and blink aren’t 2 of them.
- sangeeth96 4y agoNot that experienced but still early enough to remember it being used for all kinds of annoying experiences. Still, it was such a fun little thing to use while learning to build my own pages.
- seanhunter 4y agoYou are not. Marquee and blink were a plague.
- xutopia 4y agoI hated them too but seeing it today reminded me of some good times spent discovering HTML and Javascript and having my mind boggled by what happens when you write a some characters out and after one FTP upload you see a web site.
- 369548684892826 4y agoNot just depreciated, it's fully deprecated now!
- aspyct 4y agoI agree. Marquee is bad. Blink too. But combine both? Greatness ensues!
- klyrs 4y agoI hated those tags back then, but they crack me up now...
- orliesaurus 4y agokinda miss it though
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- atum47 4y agoOh man... I loved marquee so much. I use it do to all sorts of tricks... https://jsfiddle.net/vf973btu/ https://jsfiddle.net/vf973btu/ I remember creating an effect like the one above, while some javascript "calculate" the probability of you being an alien... it was my first alien detector! =)
- sangeeth96 4y agoTIL that you can nest them and make a DVD bounce effect! There's even an `onbounce` property to which you can add a handler and make it change colors!... at least on Firefox: https://jsbin.com/givevorilu/1/edit?html,console,output https://jsbin.com/givevorilu/1/edit?html,console,output
- tristanbvk 4y agoI had a tough day followed by a headache - this made my evening. Thank you.
- joe5150 4y agoIf you change "j" to "y" in the nested marquee, you can make the Betamax logo bounce instead.
- forgetfreeman 4y agoFond memories of this tag. Like the time during a lab practical I typo'd the closing tag on one of these which caused 100% of the page contents to scroll off the screen...and never come back.
- holler 4y agoThe most OG tag for sure. Raise your hand if you remember guest books, site counters, marquee tags, and using 4 small positioned images to get rounded corners!
- mr_toad 4y agoAnd the ubiquitous ‘under construction’ .gif
- thih9 4y agoAlso, table driven page layout, actual popup windows, DHTML[1] was a thing and applet tag hasn’t been deprecated yet. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
- salmo 4y agoThat reminds me of my days doing shudder ColdFusion and seeing Microsoft Liquid Motion, their short-lived Macromedia Flash competitor. Well and DHTML immediately reminds me of Dreamweaver and trying to make everything compatible with IE and Netscape with a lot of browser detection. I miss the people I worked with back then. But not UI work. As bad as it was, it was less complicated and more stable than it seems to be today. And I don't miss people asking me to make something "more green" that is #0000FF. To paraphrase Spinal Tap: "None. None more green"
- holler 4y agoAh you're right, and how could we forget <frame>(s)?!
- BuildTheRobots 4y agoI can't hear DHTML without thinking DHTML Lemmings[0]. It blew me away 18 years ago and still makes me grin today. [0]: https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/ https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
- desro 4y agoModals drive me crazy on the modern web -- I wonder why there's been no pushback equivalent to "actual" pop-up blocking
- mkoryak 4y agoEveryone hates this element, but what I hate even more than this element are implementations of this element using modern html+js+css.
- MWil 4y agowould it be possible to do something like this with marquee instead of SVG/animation? https://codepen.io/Anna_Batura/pen/MWXjMmE https://codepen.io/Anna_Batura/pen/MWXjMmE