In Defense of <blink> and <marquee>
<blink> and <marquee> are panned today as poor, inaccessible design.
But for many, they were the first injection of character into otherwise static and "boring" HTML.
Before CSS, before the widespread adoption of JavaScript, before Flash... these tags gave some kind of life to our webpages.
They were easy to use.
They were eye-catching.
True, they only worked on certain browsers.
They don't exactly make it easy to read content quickly.
And good luck clicking
a link
embedded in a marquee.
But now, in the face of overwhelming homogeneity in Web design, I find them oddly charming.
They were a way of resisting sameness, back when there weren't many options to do so.
They remind me of back when we had the patience to wait until the scroll got to the end...
...instead of now, when we feel like we need to get all the information immediately otherwise there's no point.
And in this era of clean, seamless design...
...don't we sometimes want things to be just a little bit complicated?
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