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the <blink> tag will probably be remembered as the most hated of all HTML tags I don't know... it's a pretty close race between <blink> and <marquee>...

• blhack 15y ago
  Oh man, <marguee scroll=vertical>Item 1<br>Item 2<br></marquee> I had the coolest news ticket on my angelfire page!
  • thelarry 15y ago
    Life was easier back then
  • salimmadjd 15y ago
    You're making me nostalgic to the bone...
    • vibrunazo 15y ago
      There, there. http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=11&url=http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&#3...
  • derleth 15y ago
    > marguee This tague was only implemented by Netsgape Naviguator.
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    • batista 15y ago
      Which was the only browser that mattered at the time, anyway...
      • jaredsohn 15y ago
        Your comment deserves a woosh, but this isn't reddit. The parent post was making fun of a spelling error by making similar errors in 'tag', 'Netscape' and 'Navigator'. Your comment is also wrong in that marquee actually originated in Internet Explorer 3. I remember when there were webpages that would blink in Netscape and marquee in Internet Explorer since each browser had its own proprietary annoying tag.
        • eru 15y ago
          Please pardon my off-topic question. What does `woosh' mean on reddit anyway?
          • jaredsohn 15y ago
            People will say 'woosh' if somebody took a joking comment seriously because the humor was too sophisticated. People use this word because it is the sound made when the comment goes over someone's head (here, the comment is treated like an airplane.) Urbandictionary can be a good place to look up this kind of thing, if you read it selectively. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoosh http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoosh Also, since I can no longer edit my earlier comment, it was actually derleth's comment that I was factually correcting (although he likely said that because it allowed the joke to work better).
          • derleth 15y ago
            The usual spelling is whoosh, by the way.
  • jacobr 15y ago
    Instead of presentational elements, you should use CSS! http://davidwalsh.name/webkit-marquee-css http://davidwalsh.name/webkit-marquee-css http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee/
• Bezvezenator 15y ago
  And let's not forget blinquee http://bugzil.la/163050 http://bugzil.la/163050
  • creamyhorror 15y ago
    Nice thread, I laughed at this: http://www.courageunfettered.com/stuf/cheerup/ http://www.courageunfettered.com/stuf/cheerup/ CHEER UP!
• Mjux 15y ago
  its both. probably the advent of web. good to know all
• gbog 15y ago
  No no, those were exceptions, easy too handle. The really most despicable tag is by far the <font> tag, or should I say <FONT>?