<marquee> tag doesn't work on Netscape 6.2.3

Scrolling text / images on Netscape 6.2.3

[m3cheng]

I have used the <marquee> tag to show a list of scrolling images on my page. It works fine on any version of IE and NS 7.0... But when under NS 6.2.3, it does not scroll anymore (just appear as static text).... Any idea?

Thanks...

[mivox]

I don't think <marquee> was supported in older versions of Netscape, since the tag started life as a proprietary IE "feature".

[m3cheng]

Yes you are right. For NS 4.x, I used ilayer and layer instead of marquee... and NS 7.0 does support marquee and it's working fine. On NS 6.2.3, marquee doesn't work.. but using ilayer and layer doesn't show up all the images... ie. it suppose to scroll 10 images, but only the first 3 images are repeated...

[mivox]

I have seen "news scroller" javascripts before... perhaps one of them would be more universally compatible than the <marquee> tag or ilayer solution?

[andreasfriedrich]

sure, letīs add more stupid and unneccessary javascript to our pages and produce those nice little error messages asking whether you want to start the debugging mode.

[mivox]

Well, at least my post was trying to be helpful. ;) How about offering a suggestion or alternate solution to the problem, if you're so against javascript?

[Filipe]

<marquee> is a non-standard tag (i.e., either it was never officially implemented in a W3C standard, or it is was, but is deprecated in newer standards.

I'd stay away from this tag if possible. You shouldn't need it to make your site better.

[Pushycat]

Perhaps he meant a Java news scroller? There are tons of these with a variety of different features, and file sizes.

[m3cheng]

I just found out another big problem with Netscape 6.2.3 and Netscape 7.0... I am using navigator.appVersion to get the browser version. However I noticed that it always returns 5.0 to me for both 6.2.3 and 7.0... Anyone has other idea to distinguish the two versions?

Even if I can get around the marquee problem, I have no way to distinguish the two browsers.. =(

[m3cheng]

The scrolling image list is from the requirements... so I can't really change the specs. except to follow...

What is the news scroller about? Thanks...

[oilman]

you can see several scrollers here [hotscripts.com].

[mivox]

Perhaps he meant a Java news scroller?

Nope. She meant javascript. ;)

Javascript, through the convenient use of "if" statements, can be written to support almost every browser on earth, if the script writer is willing to put in the effort.

Great link, oil... I use hotscripts.com all the time when hunting for cgi's, but never thought to hunt for javascripts there.

[dhdweb]

I remember using tags like <marquee> & <blink>,
This was back when I used drugs, it made the trip better :)

Oh yea, how about fading in backgrounds, those where cool to.

Anyway, as was already said, there are much better options to the above mentioned tags!

dhdweb