> > No, I'm afraid it's pretty much taken for granted that they
> > are crap, useless tags which nobody in their right mind would
> > ever want to or need to use ever again. --snip--
>
> Have you been on one of those assertiveness courses?
Should I have been? :)
> > By virtue of Javascript and CSS and the W3C DOM, it is
> > possible to emulate a marquee using the string gadget....
> > --snip--
>
> Excellent. Only problem is: I know how to type <marquee> but
> I don't know the first thing about Javascript!
So learn Javascript, so-called "webmaster" :)
> I will now begin the hunt for 5 sites that use marquee.
For your next challenge, l shall ask you to hunt for 5 modern
webbrowsers that support both <marquee> and <blink> :)
> As for bgsounds....anyone that attached a 4meg wav to their page would
> obviously need shooting. However, at the school for whom I run a website,
> the children tend to be tickled pink when a page pops up with a bit of
sound
> - and they keep asking me when THEIR site will have a bit of sound.
Ahem. Primary school children. You could write what they know about
HCI's and web design on the back of a potato!
> A lot can be done with small sound files ....especially midi ones.
Which is entirely my point: while it's great that the kiddies are well
chuffed with the tinkly musak and choonful noizez, Joe Office Worker
doesn't want you alerting his colleagues to the fact that he browses
the Teletubbies site of a morning..
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Matt Sealey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester
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