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by ranting-moth 1290 days ago
Also consider making a replacement for the marquee element for a true nostalgic experience. Or does it still work in modern browsers?
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M4v3R 1290 days ago
It has been removed from web standards, but at least today it still works both in Chrome and Safari, I just tested. See for yourself: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
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ranting-moth 1289 days ago
Wow, I never even knew you could scroll upwards or both ways!

Works on Firefox too. I tried adding <blink> but (thankfully) that didn't work.

Blinking Marquees were a big thing.

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dspillett 1289 days ago
Blink was removed a long time ago, but you can emulate it easily with CSS animations.

To make it even more irritatingly attention grabbing while trying to read something else, layer the blink (or fade if being slightly more subtle) so it occasionally blinks brighter. Use the "Cicada Principle" to make the blink unpredictable with minimal effort.

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