Tomorrow, Marquee All Over the Place
Mozilla supports <marquee>
I thought we were finished with the <marquee> tag. Not quite. As I am working on the re-design of a forum, I realised with horror that on the existing one, the news were displayed with a marquee tag. And that Mozilla supported it. It therefore means that such a page can be fully seen and appreciated, which is quite spooky, really.
After a bit of researching, I came across this. Soon, we’ll be allowed to prove our bad taste to the world and still validate.
Work Around (the Clock)
As I already pointed out yesterday the use of user style sheets to fight ad banners, I found on mozilla.weebeastie.net a way to disable this horrible spinning:
marquee {
-moz-binding: none;
overflow: auto;
display: block;
}
I also decided t’was time to finish with blinking as well. I then added:
blink {
text-decoration: none;
}
Now, the Oh Pointy Bird page looks more Andy Warhol-ish…
I’ve then fixed my personal problems, but this leaves me with a new one: how to do as ugly as the <marquee> tag with standard XHTML and JavaScript? I’m afraid I’m too lazy – and too respectful for the people who might decide to view any of my sites – to either write it or look for it… I guess I’ll wait until CSS3 is out… sigh
