PSA: Check your old HTML tutorials before building a site off memory

Last month I tried to rebuild a personal page using stuff I remembered from the mid 90s. Forgot that blink tags and marquees don't work in modern browsers at all. Had to scrap three hours of work after testing it in Chrome. Anybody else have old coding habits come back to bite them?

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wade_young8614d ago

lol "who cares if it breaks" I used to be 100% in that camp. Thought people were being too precious about standards and validation. Then I spent a weekend building a whole navigation menu around a marquee effect for a retro themed site. Chrome straight up ignored it, Firefox half rendered it, and Safari just showed a blank space. That was the moment I realized I was the one being stubborn, not the browsers. Now I just use CSS animations to fake the look if I really want that old vibe.

abby_martin2815d ago

Stick with the old stuff honestly... at least it had personality compared to the boring flat designs everyone uses now. I still throw a marquee in once in a while just for fun, who cares if it breaks?