I know that <marquee> tags are evil.
If it is so bad to have scrolling text, then using JS to get the same effect doesn’t make it any better, right?
And suppose I decided to have some scrolling text (gasp), is there some type of CSS(3?) or HTML(5?) way to do this that is technically correct (i.e. not deprecated)?
If there isn’t a CSS/HTML solution, should I use:
- Javascript, which will be heavier to download and might be turned off (is that a pro or a con?), but I get the bonus of being W3C correct and valid and non-deprecated and smart,
or should I use
- the hated
<marquee>(<blink><blink>) tag, which is lightweight (19 bytes!), fully supported by all browsers in all rendering modes and all doctypes (even though it shouldn’t be), but is deprecated?
Thanks.
P.S. I think a news ticker is a valid use for marquee-style
P.P.S. If anybody tells me that if I don’t want a heavy Javascript solution I should use JQuery because it is lightweight, I will shoot them in the comments
Edit: I’m adding JQuery tag since that seems to be the best way to get attention from a lot of experts on JS questions, and it is not totally unrelated here.
It is not the effect that is bad. The problem with marquee, blink and font tags is that they convey presentation not structure of your content.