The Marquee Element

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/marquee

by notmysql_ • 4 years ago

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raldi2• 4 years ago

On my iPhone, the one that says direction="down" behavior="alternate" doesn't bounce up and down; it bounces horizontally.

arghwhat• 4 years ago

Yeah it doesn't seem to handle nested marquees, only respecting the inner one...

raldi2• 4 years ago

Oh, I guess the intended behavior is for it to bounce like the DVD logo.

uneekname• 4 years ago

I 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• 4 years ago

I 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.

sangeeth963• 4 years ago

Not 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• 4 years ago

You are not. Marquee and blink were a plague.

xutopia• 4 years ago

I 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• 4 years ago

Not just depreciated, it's fully deprecated now!

aspyct• 4 years ago

I agree. Marquee is bad. Blink too.

But combine both?

Greatness ensues!

klyrs• 4 years ago

I hated those tags back then, but they crack me up now...

orliesaurus• 4 years ago

kinda miss it though

atum47• 4 years ago

Oh man... I loved marquee so much. I use it do to all sorts of tricks...

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! =)

sangeeth963• 4 years ago

TIL 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

tristanbvk• 4 years ago

I had a tough day followed by a headache - this made my evening.

Thank you.

joe5150• 4 years ago

If you change "j" to "y" in the nested marquee, you can make the Betamax logo bounce instead.

forgetfreeman• 4 years ago

Fond 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.

holler2• 4 years ago

The 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!

thih9• 4 years ago

Also, 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

salmo• 4 years ago

That 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"

holler2• 4 years ago

Ah you're right, and how could we forget <frame>(s)?!

BuildTheRobots• 4 years ago

I 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/

desro• 4 years ago

Modals drive me crazy on the modern web -- I wonder why there's been no pushback equivalent to "actual" pop-up blocking

Rodeoclash• 4 years ago

And Web Rings. In fact, I'm surprised considering how ideas simply get recycled (IRC -> Slack) that nobody has tried to reinvent the web ring. I suppose it's the death of self hosted sites that has killed it.

somat• 4 years ago

The second best part of webcomics is when they have a links section and you get to see what comics the author likes.

mathgorges• 4 years ago

I don’t think web rings have been killed, I think they’ve just been eaten by platforms like most of the internet.

In most contexts they’ve been replaced by AI driven recommendation engines.

Although I discovered a delightful example of a human curated recommendation engine the other day in the form of bandcamp’s `Recomendations` feature :)

mr_toad• 4 years ago

And the ubiquitous ‘under construction’ .gif

mkoryak• 4 years ago

Everyone hates this element, but what I hate even more than this element are implementations of this element using modern html+js+css.

MWil• 4 years ago

would it be possible to do something like this with marquee instead of SVG/animation?

https://codepen.io/Anna_Batura/pen/MWXjMmE

The Marquee Element

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