did the no fun police remove the marquee tag from firefox?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

did the no fun police remove the marquee tag from firefox? the marquee tag on my website doesn't marquee anymore ;_;

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

unclear if it was removed "for security", or if mozilla's new intern Claude simply broke it

[klara@wandering.shop]

@aeva I kinda vaguely remember hearing about them removing it a while back? Not for security, not by accident, but just acquiescing to the decades-long hate campaign.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@klara 😔

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@klara i'll resurrect it with css later i guess

[klara@wandering.shop]

@aeva I'd say resurrect it with a Java applet, but I don't know if you can do those anymore either.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@klara @aeva i seem to recall it being stated unequivocally many a time that the web platform is fully backwards compatible (hence why es6 let/const didn't actually solve the mysterious variable declaration semantics but just added new failure modes) but this would seem to contradict that perfect backwards compat?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@klara you sorta can. here's one emulated in js I found the other month http://www.geoastro.de/SME/index.htm

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@klara @aeva have always wondered why there can't be versioned javascript editions or whatever, especially since google crows incessantly about versioned APIs for go. this is why i use coffeescript. so it's especially troubling that even backwards compat is a sham

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hipsterelectron @klara I feel like the web really let itself go since the aughts

[klara@wandering.shop]

@aeva Excellent. Now you just need to find a way to make it look like a flash animation and you'll be set.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@klara I was kinda thinking what if I could dig up an old copy of flash and some kind of flash to js translator or something, and then build a new website in flash...

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@klara this thought is in direct competition with my desire to build my webpage in SDL and wasm it up

[toba@zeroes.ca]

@aeva it was deprecated 5y or more ago
https://kasp9023.medium.com/what-happened-to-the-marquee-html-element-6ec6782f42ce

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@toba rude of them >:(