marquee tag - should we use it?

now works in the big two browsers

[Hester]

From Mozilla's inbuilt stylesheets:

/* emulation of non-standard HTML <marquee> tag */
marquee {
 display: block;
 -moz-binding: url('chrome://xbl-marquee/content/xbl-marquee.xml#marquee-horizontal');
}

marquee[direction="up"], marquee[direction="down"] {
 -moz-binding: url('chrome://xbl-marquee/content/xbl-marquee.xml#marquee-vertical');
}

The marquee tag now works in IE, Mozilla 1.4 and Netscape 7.1! Should we use it?

[trillianjedi]

What is a marquee? If it's one of those hideous scrolling animation things then I would seriously advise against it in defence of good style and web page usability!

TJ

[bachius]

Marquee is now also supported by Opera 7.2 (early beta is out now)!
It also supports BiDi, and will probably be the first browser that completely supports CSS2.1

[DrDoc]

In general, you should not use marquee, blink, or any other "funky" tags or CSS functions. I have yet to see a page where such "effects" have been used to enhance the browsing experience. They are not even all that good to draw attention to a certain text!

[bachius]

Agree...You should have very good reasons before using marquee. It's not very professional...

[Hester]

Then how come all these browsers are starting to allow it? Shouldn't they ensure it doesn't work so nobody will want to use it?

[pjamescowie]

The reference in the stylesheet to "emulation of non-standard HTML" should be your clue here......

Non-standard being the key words....

I tend to agree with your line of questioning though: why are the big standards browsers attempting to support such dodgy features?

They should ignore them and hopefully we'll see the end of them sooner rather than later.

[Hester]

"Hey kewl, this marquee tag thing works! Now I'm gonna use it on all my sites dude! Wicked!"

Maybe it's more accessible to use it because it doesn't require Javascript, which might be turned off? Just a thought, no flames please!

[drbrain]

<marquee> is supported in Mozilla because "1 billion chinese can't be wrong" (I believe that is almost a direct IRC quote).

Search bugzilla.mozilla.org for marquee bugs for more information.

[D_Blackwell]

I don't generally care for anything moving or flashing on my pages, but have had a few requests (demands) for it.

Both speed and range can be controlled. A conservative approach can achieve the goals without unduly upsetting anyone.

Nothing highlights a section better than a correctly selected graphic/color combination though.