Marquee HTML Element

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Post by zachsherman » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 3:15 PM UTC

Marquee HTML Element
developer.mozilla.org

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by geofft » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 3:48 PM UTC

In Safari, "This text will bounce" (two marquees in orthogonal directions, both with behavior="alternate") only moves left-to-right - it seems the inner marquee cancels the outer one. In Chrome it moves diagonally and bounces in both directions like an old-school screen saver.

The article doesn't clarify whether this is intended behavior, should it?

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by flixic » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 3:49 PM UTC

Still works on iOS 13. It’s quite reassuring that after all the posturing about obsolescence and depreciations it’s still there.

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by qiqitori » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 3:49 PM UTC

Used just a couple weeks ago to simulate a scrolling text screensaver for use as a video backdrop.

Actually used the linked page as a reference and laughed a bit at the "truespeed" attribute.

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by mkoryak » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 3:49 PM UTC

I recently used some marque elements for taking up space.

One thing I really liked about them was the 'truespeed' attribute.

I mean, name a cool sounding attribute that you use every day.. you can't.

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by keanebean86 » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

qiqitori wrote: post #4

Used just a couple weeks ago to simulate a scrolling text screensaver for use as a video backdrop. Actually used the linked page as a reference and laughed a bit at the "truespeed" attribute.

I use it when testing for XSS. It shows me where the dirty text is being added to the page and it can be very amusing when nested.

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by tantalor » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 4:11 PM UTC

flixic wrote: post #3

Still works on iOS 13. It’s quite reassuring that after all the posturing about obsolescence and depreciations it’s still there.

Deprecation, not depreciation

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by dandigangi » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

One of those legacy features you always get a kick out of looking back. I could see some cases where you could use that still though!

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by nocman » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 4:32 PM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #7

flixic wrote: post #3

Still works on iOS 13. It’s quite reassuring that after all the posturing about obsolescence and depreciations it’s still there.

Deprecation, not depreciation

Well, I guess one could make the argument that "" isn't as valuable as it used to be. But, of course, you could also make the argument that it has the same low value that it always had. :-D

Either way I'm sure "all the posturing" was actually about deprecation.

Re: Marquee HTML Element

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Post by yyyk » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 4:54 PM UTC

There isn't a good argument for considering marquee deprecated anymore. Not when a element is being considered[0]. So I'd use it whenever I want a marquee.

After all, and are both shorthands for stuff that could be implemented in CSS/JS - except marquee is well supported, well specified, and more semantically different than other elements compared to (which is pretty similar to and arguably [1]).

[0] https://github.com/jackbsteinberg/std-toast

[1] https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/07/10/the-output-element...