[HN Gopher] The Marquee Element
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The Marquee Element
Author : notmysql_
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-11-08 20:47 UTC (2 days ago)
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| hnlmorg wrote:
| 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.
| xutopia wrote:
| 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.
| aspyct wrote:
| I agree. Marquee is bad. Blink too.
|
| But combine both?
|
| Greatness ensues!
| sangeeth96 wrote:
| 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.
| 369548684892826 wrote:
| Not just depreciated, it's fully deprecated now!
| seanhunter wrote:
| You are not. Marquee and blink were a plague.
| orliesaurus wrote:
| kinda miss it though
| [deleted]
| forgetfreeman wrote:
| 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.
| raldi wrote:
| On my iPhone, the one that says direction="down"
| behavior="alternate" doesn't bounce up and down; it bounces
| horizontally.
| arghwhat wrote:
| Yeah it doesn't seem to handle nested marquees, only respecting
| the inner one...
| raldi wrote:
| Oh, I guess the intended behavior is for it to bounce like
| the DVD logo.
| sangeeth96 wrote:
| Correct. Works fine on Chrome/Firefox on macOS. Though, I
| notice that the animation on Firefox isn't smooth.
| LukeBMM wrote:
| An example, which sounds like it won't work on iOS.
|
| https://codepen.io/LukeAtWork/pen/JjYXdbN
| atum47 wrote:
| 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! =)
| sangeeth96 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I had a tough day followed by a headache - this made my
| evening.
|
| Thank you.
| joe5150 wrote:
| If you change "j" to "y" in the nested marquee, you can make
| the Betamax logo bounce instead.
| uneekname wrote:
| 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.
| holler wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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"
| holler wrote:
| Ah you're right, and how could we forget <frame>(s)?!
| Rodeoclash wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| The second best part of webcomics is when they have a links
| section and you get to see what comics the author likes.
| MWil wrote:
| would it be possible to do something like this with marquee
| instead of SVG/animation?
|
| https://codepen.io/Anna_Batura/pen/MWXjMmE
| mkoryak wrote:
| Everyone hates this element, but what I hate even more than this
| element are implementations of this element using modern
| html+js+css.
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