<MARQUEE> problem on Macs?

[jasonsalas]

Has anyone ever heard of <MARQUEE> tags wigging out on Macs? I've been working on a page design -

http://66.129.67.220/homepage-concept.aspx

- and it looks alright (that's speculative) on Windows boxes, but on Macs the scrolling text in the bottom-right stretches waaaaay out, pulling the table cell it resides in extremely far.

I guess I could get around this by explicitly having the width attribute of the <MARQUEE> set to a certain # of pixels, but I wasn't aware of this. At the moment, the width property is 97% of the table cell width.

 

[dwarfthrower]

Gah, marquee is horrid. An abomination above all others. Don't use it.

 

[jwenting]

get rid of marquee, it's an abomination.

Luckily the W3 removed it from the standard (if it was ever part of it).

 

[ChrisHunt]

<marquee> is a Microsoft tag that only works in Internet Explorer. Other browsers will ignore the <marquee> tags and render the whole of its content instead.

Like the other guys say, it's one of those &quot;cool&quot; effects that are actually really irritating - like animated gifs and other moving gew-gaws on a page you're trying to read.

If you're determined to stick with this effect (and, to be fair, your stock price ticker is probably a legitimate place to use it) look for a Javascript way to implement it, like this one:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/cmarquee.htm

Browsers who don't understand Javascript, or have it switched off, will see no stock prices at all - but thats a more graceful way to degrade than to mess up your page layout by showing all at once!

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[jasonsalas]

Thanks Chris!

Jas

 

[jasonsalas]

Actually,

I'm thinking about including the stock ticker (something I wrote on the side -

http://www.kuam.com/techtalk/nasdaqcompositecustomservercontrol.htm)

using an IFRAME. What's the cross-browser compatability with IFRAMEs? If I recall, just IE, right?

I'll admit that I'm very bad at building cross-browser apps. I typically build exclusievly for MSIE5.5+ and chalk the remainder up as acceptables losses.

Jas

 

[MrBelfry]

iframe was included in HTML 4.01 I think so should work across browsers (alright I'm an optimist). I don't think it is in the XHTML spec though

MrBelfry

 

[TruthInSatire]

only thing worse than marquee is blink.


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[jasonsalas]

Hi everyone,

Just a follow-up...I did some server-side testing for the <MARQUEE> tag and only display it if the client is running IE4+, so it should degrade pretty nicely in Netscape, Opera, Macs, etc.

This is what happens when a developer takes on a designer's job...ouch.