5 ms·

Considering the marquee tag works in basically all browsers [1], has anyone here actually found a good, unironic use for it in today's world of crazy CSS animat

Considering the marquee tag works in basically all browsers [1], has anyone here actually found a good, unironic use for it in today's world of crazy CSS animations? [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/marquee https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

90s_dev 1y ago
Yeah, to really emphasize an important message.
seanhunter 1y ago
The correct use is alongside the “man with a spade”.jpg to let people know your page is under construction.
- bitwize 1y ago
  "Hey! Stickly Man! WHAAAAAAAAAAAT are you doing!" https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction
8n4vidtmkvmk 1y ago
Plex does something very similar to marquee to display an actors name when it's too long to fit under their profile pic. Seems like a good use.
- layer8 1y ago
  Music players, including car radios and portable CD and MiniDisc players, did that around 25 years ago. It's sort-of a standard UI pattern for variable-length text in a fixed-size display.
bradly 1y ago
I use a bunch of marquees to create an animated scene on my homepage[0]. Different speeds for a parallax effect and even some multi-axis marquees for rain effect. [0]: https://bradlyfeeley.com/ https://bradlyfeeley.com/ (no idea which browsers it renders properly in)
- edoceo 1y ago
  Trees and clouds! (Pixel + Chrome)
- satiric 1y ago
  I love the use of emoji in that animated scene! I would never have guessed; I only found out from looking at the raw HTML.
mbo 1y ago
I use it to display RSS feeds on my personal website (https://maxbo.me https://maxbo.me) as a allusion to news tickers (which are themselves an allusion to ticker tape machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_tape)
deleted 1y ago
[deleted]
chrismorgan 1y ago
It’s used all over the place on Indian government websites, old and new. Often by <marquee>, sometimes by JS, maybe sometimes by CSS. I never figured out why the actual <marquee> tag has a low frame rate. Maybe it’s to make it more unpleasant so you won’t want to use it. Certainly I would use a CSS animation instead for the frame rate reason, if I was forced to put a marquee on a page.
senfiaj 1y ago
Perhaps better semantics?
sparkie 1y ago
They can be useful in a tabbed interface. Since the width of a tab is limited, and may not be large enough to fit in the text, scrolling the text in the active tab title may be better than hovering to show a tooltip (Though we should use the tooltip for the inactive tabs).

90s_dev 1y ago

Yeah, to really emphasize an important message.

seanhunter 1y ago

The correct use is alongside the “man with a spade”.jpg to let people know your page is under construction.

bitwize 1y ago
"Hey! Stickly Man! WHAAAAAAAAAAAT are you doing!" https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction

8n4vidtmkvmk 1y ago

Plex does something very similar to marquee to display an actors name when it's too long to fit under their profile pic. Seems like a good use.

layer8 1y ago
Music players, including car radios and portable CD and MiniDisc players, did that around 25 years ago. It's sort-of a standard UI pattern for variable-length text in a fixed-size display.

bradly 1y ago

I use a bunch of marquees to create an animated scene on my homepage[0]. Different speeds for a parallax effect and even some multi-axis marquees for rain effect. [0]: https://bradlyfeeley.com/ https://bradlyfeeley.com/ (no idea which browsers it renders properly in)

edoceo 1y ago
Trees and clouds! (Pixel + Chrome)
satiric 1y ago
I love the use of emoji in that animated scene! I would never have guessed; I only found out from looking at the raw HTML.

mbo 1y ago

I use it to display RSS feeds on my personal website (https://maxbo.me https://maxbo.me) as a allusion to news tickers (which are themselves an allusion to ticker tape machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_tape)

deleted 1y ago

[deleted]

chrismorgan 1y ago

It’s used all over the place on Indian government websites, old and new. Often by <marquee>, sometimes by JS, maybe sometimes by CSS. I never figured out why the actual <marquee> tag has a low frame rate. Maybe it’s to make it more unpleasant so you won’t want to use it. Certainly I would use a CSS animation instead for the frame rate reason, if I was forced to put a marquee on a page.

senfiaj 1y ago

Perhaps better semantics?

sparkie 1y ago

They can be useful in a tabbed interface. Since the width of a tab is limited, and may not be large enough to fit in the text, scrolling the text in the active tab title may be better than hovering to show a tooltip (Though we should use the tooltip for the inactive tabs).