Do you remember when there was a brief bug in Netscape that enabled multiple <title> tags to effectively animate the window title? That was a fun one.

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/...

I know it’s horrible design but I love using <marquee> to test things in HTML sometimes.

needs <xmp>, no pre is not a replacement.

I really need to repurpose 90s.dev asap.

And not just to be another neocities.

There's so much lost joy and wonder to recover.

Never got the hate to these.

I think some people just want to feel important by diminishing things they see others diminishing, makes up from not having thoughts of one's own.

This applies to everything, not just HTML obv.

HN hug of death?

https://web.archive.org/web/20250608044216/https://danq.me/2...

Interestingly, the default <marquee> doesn’t appear as smooth as a CSS animation would be?

Playing with the scroll speed makes it feel smoother:

  <marquee scrolldelay="50" truespeed>scroll faster than default</marquee>

I was there, 3,000 years ago.

I remember fights over whether or not navigation in frames was bad practice. Not iframes, frames. Who here remembers frames?

I remember using HTTP 204 before AJAX to send messages to the server without reloading the page.

I remember building... image maps[1]... professionally in the early 2000. I remember spending multiple days drawing the borders of States on a map of the country in Dreamweaver so we could have a clickable map.

I remember Dreamweaver templates and people updating things wrong and losing their changes on a template update and no way to get it back because no one used version control.

I remember <input type=image> and handling where you clicked on an image in the backend.

I remember streaming updates to pages via motion jpeg. Still works in Chrome, less reliably in Firefox.

I remember the multiple steps we took towards a proper IE PNG fix just to get alpha blending... before we got the ActiveX one that worked somewhat reliably... Just for tastes to change and everything to become flat and us to not really need it anymore.

I remember building site navigations in Java, Flash, and Silverlight.

I remember spacer gifs and conditional comments and what a godsend Firebug was.

I don't know when I got old, it just happened one day.

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

My favorite trick with <marquee> was to nest them, with different, alternating directions. You could make the contents alternate between scrolling and stopping by setting the inner marquee to travel in the opposite direction at the same speed as the outer marquee. Or do more levels with alternating speeds to make it zip around randomly. I think you had to set a max width for the inner marquees for this to work?

"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days."

> from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10 (about:mozilla)

And now Mozilla is being scorched to the earth. The End.

The good old days of writing html on the windows 98 notepad.

No 20mb js framework, no ide, no ai "assistants", just pure, healthy, free range basement grown webpages the way god intended.

The blink tag was, of course, much hated back in the day, so as an experiment, I took the binary of whatever browser I was using (Netscape, I guess), searched for "blink", and changed it to "blonk". Tada, no more blinking!

Ah yes, the <BLINK><MARQUEE><H1> to tell everyone the website made in notepad in 1997 was still under construction in bold, Comic Sans, and fuchsia on a yellow background. Don't forget the lots of NBSPs so that the message scrolls off for even a longer period of time and the reader has to wait for their computer to shift the message back into the viewport.

What's missing about the retro experience is browsers and computers were slower back that then, so large marquees would blink and scroll with visible tearing.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing

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This was a perfect piece of nostalgia. I love that blink was created as a joke.

A friend of mine would always put `<blink>` around his middle name as a quick and dirty way to test for missing escaping and possible xss. Back in the day this was surprisingly effective at uncovering problems :-)

I created this a while ago, and whenever I show someone they are shocked to see there is absolutely no JavaScript; all of the animations are done via marquee tags: https://udel.edu/~ianozi/

Lot of older India gov sites still seem to use these tags.

https://www.epfindia.gov.in/site_en/index.php

They took away the <blink> tag from us, due to what can only be explained by a lack of willingness to maintain such a complex feature in modern browsers, and late stage capitalism.

However, thanks to the brilliant hard work of the open source community, we have a widely supported browser polyfill: https://github.com/yocontra/blink-polyfill