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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	First of all: [quote]I'm asking about the tag itself, not whether one finds the resulting scrolling text aesthetically pleasing or not.[/quote] What does that even mean? How can you separate the tag itself from what it does? HTML tags are not like friends who might be cool to hang around with in general but have these really annoying habits that get on your nerves from time to time. ("Yeah, marquee, he's not that bad a guy, but hang it all if he can't walk by a piece of text without making it scroll!") Their entire raison d'etre is their function. If the resulting scrolling text is evil (and I think we've established that), then the tag behind it is evil. As Wes pointed out, the marquee is a technique used to convey information in a limited space. It would be like having really long columns of text on your web site--say, four columns--that ran down several screen lengths. Can you imagine how annoying it would be to have to scroll down and then scroll back up and then scroll back down, etc., just to read the text? What worked for newspapers does not work for the web (I'm not saying that you can't have columns, of course, but they have to be adapted to the web environment). In the same way, the marquee tag is an example of a technique that was the result of trying to apply non-web solutions to the web before everyone figured out that the web is an entirely different medium with different rules. Does that make sense? And for the record, the Brit Superstore page does [b]not[/b] use the marquee tag. The effect is achieved with JavaScript. Not that that makes it any less of an abomination, of course, but I just thought I'd point it out. On the positive side, if you surf with JS off by default (like I do) you don't have to deal wtih scrolling text. [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_taegeuk_sig2.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] Loading...
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