[WEB4LIB] FrontPage elements

[Dan Lester]

At 07:25 AM 3/29/99 -0800, Tami-Jo Eckley wrote:
>Can anyone help?  I have inserted a marquee to our homepage in FrontPage,
>but it does not show up in Netscape.  Would appreciate input.  Thanks!

As others have already noted, the marquee is a MS special addition to 
HTML.  Although I prefer MSIE for personal and public use for many reasons, 
I sure don't recommend that people use all of the "flashy" goofy  things 
like marquees, fancy transitions, and so forth.  Some of the web "old 
timers" (back to 94 or so) will remember when they first introduced the 
<blink> tag and for about six months everybody was filling pages with 
blinking stuff.  Like most fads, that went away relatively quickly.  Of 
course we've since then had other fads, including frames, animated gifs, 
marquees, and others.

I think that a great many web managers (including librarians) get hung up 
on being "cute" or "with it" or "cool" and ignore what is really functional 
for the user they're theoretically designing for.

I'm not saying ALL blinking, ALL marquees, etc, are bad.  But I'd sure 
think about nine times before using them, and then do so only if I'd 
confirmed from some testing that they were really useful.

cheers

dan





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