@Night Giant - the reason that's happened does make a LOT of sense when you look at web design on a larger scale. Yeah - if you're throwing together a static HTML page for a single use, its slightly annoying... But imagine you have complete separation of content and presentation - how annoying would it be for you to have something centred when you might not want it to be centred for an alternative design (the <center> tag would be forcing it into the middle, unlike anything else of its "type")? You'd THEN have to implement rules specifically in that design which forces any element inside a <center> element to be left/right/justified.
The thing that annoys me about marquee/ant/blink and all those other effects is that they're just plain annoying and don't add anything to viewer pleasure/experience. Moving things will always draw your eye - so if you're trying to read something then a moving block of text will eventually get on your nerves. Plus - again - its combining presentation with content.
Unfortunately, the annoyance of marquee has been replaced by people using flash in entirely inappropriate places. If I ever go to a website which is entirely made of flash - it just gets closed straight away and I do without whatever it was I went to that site for (unless its 100% necessary). Flash menu's tend to get a similar response from me, depending on my mood. There is NO need for a flash menu whatsoever, the same effect can be achieved without flash and if it cant - ITS A MENU, NOT A GAME!
I, for one, am glad there is no marquee BBCode in this forum.
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