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Re: Can you believe this?

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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Nov 21, 2006 4:10AM

Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
>> b) used the
>> proprietary IE <marquee> tag and therefore the text wasn't visible at all
>> to users of oter browsers.
>
> The funny thing is that <marguee> despite being proprietary (and
> avoidable) ir pretty
> much visible and even works in other browsers (at least Gecko based and Opera).

Here's a strange thing: it didn't work for me in Firefox. Works for
other people. Why not for me? I'd got JavaScript disabled! But there
is no JavaScript in that code, only <marquee>.
I didn't know that disabling JavaScript stops <marquee> from working
but I've just written a test page and by golly it does!
Is this something that everyone else knew about all along?

Penny