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the <blink> tag will probably be remembered as the most hated of all HTML tags

I don't know... it's a pretty close race between <blink> and <marquee>...

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Oh man, <marguee scroll=vertical>Item 1<br>Item 2<br></marquee>

I had the coolest news ticket on my angelfire page!

Life was easier back then

You're making me nostalgic to the bone...

There, there.

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2...

> marguee

This tague was only implemented by Netsgape Naviguator.

Which was the only browser that mattered at the time, anyway...

Your comment deserves a woosh, but this isn't reddit. The parent post was making fun of a spelling error by making similar errors in 'tag', 'Netscape' and 'Navigator'.

Your comment is also wrong in that marquee actually originated in Internet Explorer 3. I remember when there were webpages that would blink in Netscape and marquee in Internet Explorer since each browser had its own proprietary annoying tag.

Please pardon my off-topic question. What does `woosh' mean on reddit anyway?

People will say 'woosh' if somebody took a joking comment seriously because the humor was too sophisticated. People use this word because it is the sound made when the comment goes over someone's head (here, the comment is treated like an airplane.)

Urbandictionary can be a good place to look up this kind of thing, if you read it selectively. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoosh

Also, since I can no longer edit my earlier comment, it was actually derleth's comment that I was factually correcting (although he likely said that because it allowed the joke to work better).

The usual spelling is whoosh, by the way.

Instead of presentational elements, you should use CSS!

http://davidwalsh.name/webkit-marquee-css http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee/

And let's not forget blinquee http://bugzil.la/163050

Nice thread, I laughed at this:

http://www.courageunfettered.com/stuf/cheerup/

CHEER UP!

No no, those were exceptions, easy too handle. The really most despicable tag is by far the <font> tag, or should I say <FONT>?

its both. probably the advent of web.

good to know all

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