You can make up HTML tags

Re:You can make up HTML tags by tombert on Monday December 29, 2025 @12:53AM (#46417868)

Huh, I would have sworn that Internet Explorer had the blink tag at one point, but I think my parents had Netscape and then Mozilla pretty early so maybe that's what I'm confusing it with.

Regardless, I stand by my comment. Monsters! I want my browser to be obnoxious.

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Re:You can make up HTML tags by chrismorgan on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:44AM (#46418363)

Never mind, Microsoft got you with <marquee>.

In theory, in 1996 Netscape and Microsoft agreed to kill <blink> and <marquee> <https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html>, but although they were kept out of the spec, neither removed its implementation, and then IE dominated the browser market, and <marquee> became popular enough that the remaining parties were bullied into shipping it (Netscape in 2002, Presto in 2003, no idea about the KHTML/WebKit timeline), and so ultimately it was put into the HTML Standard.

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Re:You can make up HTML tags by Sesse__ on Monday December 29, 2025 @04:46AM (#46419000)

KHTML added <marquee> support in October 2003 (commit 7bcdd98aa in the Chromium repository).

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Re:You can make up HTML tags by 1f60c on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:07AM (#46419097)

I have to say, that is some excellent sleuthing.

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Re:You can make up HTML tags by Tistron on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:30AM (#46418274)

I think I remember reading articles about how to implement blink in IE using behaviors, some IE only thing that didn't take hold(?), Maybe this was around IE5.

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