Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
by Kadin on Sunday November 21, 2021 @09:50PM
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My memory at this point is faded, but I thought that was the point? You used both of them to cover both the Netscape and IE cases.
(Hence, the joke, that to combine the two made you a Great Web Developer, since you knew about such things. The bar was rather low in those days, to be honest.)
Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
by Calavar on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:13PM
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I don't think so. <marquee> and <blink> do different things. <marquee> makes its content scroll across the page. <blink> makes it's content turn invisible and then reappear about once per second.
Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
by theshadowknows on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:28PM
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You could however nest horizontal and vertical marquee to make a diagonal marquee :)
Also, as far as I can remember, you could never combine <marquee> and <blink> because only IE supported <marquee> and only the Netscape family of browsers supported <blink>.
I think there is a lot of humor in this article that is maybe a little too subtle.