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Re: <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

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Post by psychoslave »

atemerev wrote: post #31
flomo wrote: post #26

"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.

I don't know, I still use Firefox as my primary browser.

Same here, but this is in spite is the governance of the foundation looking so out of rails and simultaneously lake of better alternative I'm aware of with both better governance and fine enough technological state.

Re: <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

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Post by reconnecting »

donatj wrote: post #21

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 Dre…

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Re: <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

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Post by geoffmunn »

geoffbp wrote: post #35
burnt-resistor wrote: post #32

Ah yes, the 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 ba…

Image of a construction worker digging

also Guestbooks and the email icon of the word 'email' rotating around a globe.

Re: <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

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Post by DoctorOW »

moralestapia wrote: post #8

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.

It's really simple, moving text is hard to read. As an example, turn on the local news (bear with me, I work for a TV station). You'll notice the scrolling ticker is likely simplified to focus on one headline at a time, with more pauses in between.

Re: <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

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Post by reconnecting »

shawn_w wrote: post #38
donatj wrote: post #21

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 Dre…

>Who here remembers frames? I visit a site with frames several times a week. Nobody's ever told the Open Group/POSIX people they're not supposed to use them these days.

I explained the concept of frames to a developer born after the millennium, and their reaction was that it is a pure magic.

Re: <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

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Post by bornfreddy »

SvenL wrote: post #46
deadbabe wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3000 years ago, when Ancient Egyptians argued over how they should format Papyrus text.

I think this is a reference to a LotR meme. https://youtu.be/Q63_FxegFsQ?feature=shared

For those who prefer not to visit yt, the quote "I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago" refers to Elrond talking about the time when Isildur took the One Ring from Sauron.

Re: <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)

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Post by andrelaszlo »

reconnecting wrote: post #53
donatj wrote: post #21

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 Dre…

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I remember a website about Ski-Doo snowmobiles that my friend was obsessed about (both the website and snowmobiles) in 1998 or so. It was from Canada, and the bgsound was the website owner saying something in French.

To us, it sounded like: fjänfny, hmmhmmhmm, dadadada. I only realized lately that the first word must be "bienvenue". It would be amazing to find it again on archive.org but unfortunately I dont remember more than this. :)

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