163050 - (blinquee) Create New HTML Tag: <BLINQUEE>

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Bamm Gabriana]

We should create a new tag, the BLINQUEE. BLINQUEE is better than MARQUEE
because it blinks. And it is better than BLINK because it has the ability to
scroll from end to end.

Microsuck has MARQUEE. This will make us one better than Microsuck. Netscrape
has BLINK. This will make us one better than Netscrape. So go for BLINQUEE and
we shall be ahead of all the browsers.

And because people will love BLINQUEE, this will make Mozilla the most
accessible browser in the world.

Proposed patch:
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/layout/html/document/src/html.css,v
+
+/* Create new HTML <blinquee> tag */
+blinquee {
+    display: block;
+    -moz-binding: url(marquee.xml#marquee-horizontal);
+    text-decoration: blink;
+}
+blinquee[direction="up"], blinquee[direction="down"] {
+    -moz-binding: url(marquee.xml#marquee-vertical);
+}
+@media print {
+    blinquee { -moz-binding: none; }
+    text-decoration: none;
+}
+

Comment 1

[Sebastian Biallas]

And it should loop a midi file (also via PC speaker, if you unwantedly should
have turned of your boxes), randomly rearrange all open windows, resize them,
make all popups uncloseable and ask every 5 min to register Mozilla and to
transfer some anonymized user statistics to mozilla.org.

Comment 2

[Jonas Jørgensen]

w00t!

Comment 3

[Malcolm Rowe]

Amusing, but WONTFIX.

We aren't going to support any more non-standard HTML tags.
MARQUEE is special, because ... err.. 30 sites in China use it.

Comment 4

[Sander]

I wonder what the address of the chinese Geocities is. It shouldn't be that hard
to make 30 sites using <blinquee> ;)

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

<marquee style="text-decoration:blink;"> does it already :)

Comment 6

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Can I have an ETA on this?

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

/blinquee/ *sounds* like Chinese :-)

Comment 8

[Jonas Jørgensen]

<adt>
This must be reopened and fixed ASAP. A major embedding customer needs this. We
won't tell you who. Just trust us and be happy.
</adt>

Comment 9

[Skewer]

Attachment: Blinquee testcase

A look at the future of the web.

Comment 10

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

enough jokes for today?
Everybody, who posted here, could have also used that time to fix a real bug or
- as David Baron - write a patch to add a anti-marquee-pref.

Comment 11

[Aaron Leventhal]

reopening bug so I can get rid of it.

Comment 12

[Aaron Leventhal]

no more spam for me.

Comment 13

[Aaron Leventhal]

thanks for wasting my time.

Comment 14

[Jonas Jørgensen]

.

Comment 15

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

somebody should delete the accounts of this.......... [enter random badword here]

Comment 16

[Wesha]

Kai: "Nowhere in the Torah it says, "You shalt not have a little fun"" (c)

Besides, a little laugh boosts productivity. :-b 

v.

Comment 17

[Jonas Jørgensen]

I reopened to mark INVALID, as FIXED *must* only be used when a bug has actually
been fixed since you otherwise can't query for the number of FIXED bugs to see
how many bugs have been fixed since the last release. Trying again, but adding a
comment this time so nobody will mark it FIXED again before I get back to
resolve it as INVALID.

Comment 18

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

stop this!

Comment 19

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Marking RESOLVED HAHAVERYFUNNY.

Comment 20

[Sam J. Fleet]

Account of who??

By the way, we can't support any more non standard HTML.  I understand the
"Blinquee Testcase" look awesome.  But don't you realize that it can be done in
Javascript??  And we don't have to name it Blinquee!  Let's not make the HTML
code be more uncompactible than what it already is.  Or the webmasters would be
coming after us with a baseball bat!  Never mind that baseball strike is coming!

Comment 21

[Sam J. Fleet]

Gee!  4 mid-air collision!  I'm outta of here!

Comment 22

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Verifying INVALID. Leave it at that.

10+ mail msgs about a bug of this importance (none!) is insane.

Comment 23

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

reopening

Comment 24

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

-> moi,have a patch

Comment 25

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

taking bug for real

Comment 26

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Attachment: patch

Comment 27

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I think <beepblinkquee> would be better.
blinking marquee with beeping (sound) in the blink frequency

Comment 28

[Bamm Gabriana]

We should make this an optional extension. Only chinese people can read chinese
characters anyway.

However, to the people who are "on strike", etc.:  please note that a *good*
joke would, I think, be accepted.

Comment 29

[Dan Tobias]

If nothing else, the comments on this bug are a good indicator of the degree of
sense of humor different Mozilla developers have, from the sourpusses to the
party animals and everything in between...  Myself, I laughed my butt off at
this one...

Comment 30

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

We just finished a security review of this patch and its seems secure.  Only
goats using the software could be affected and hacked, but due to the low
percent of marketshare in goat-dominant markets, it passed review.

Comment 31

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

Comment on attachment 95638 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

A nit..

>+//People Need to Relax more and eat goat cheese 
>+if (NS_USERNOTANNOYEDYET(user->getAnnoyedState()))
>+  myGoat->startBlinkingScrollingText(PR_FALSE); 

Since when a user being annoyed should be in the way of the webdeveloper
delivering its message? At least provide a <blinquee
override-every-user-pref="override-every-user-pref"> attribute.

Fix this and sr=nick.

Comment 32

[Alex Hosking]

This is just making Mozilla look dumb

Comment 33

[Skewer]

Too late.

Comment 34

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Alex: Right. Unlike real and useful bugs such as bug 122411 or bug 46647.

Comment 35

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Comment on attachment 95613 [details]
Blinquee testcase

Except for the missing DOCTYPE and the unknown tags, this almost validates as
HTML 4.01. Shame on you.

If you want this bug to be taken seriously, you'll have to do better than that.
At least give us a testcase made in Microsoft Word. Preferably served as
application/x-mshtml.

Comment 36

[Bamm Gabriana]

ok, now that <blinquee> has a patch, and what do I need to say? It's full of fleas!
I've added several rules to get it usable.
-> where the hell do we inherit our sense of humor?
-> where the hell do we inherit our background fleas?

Comment 37

[Jonas Jørgensen]

> where the hell do we inherit our sense of humor?

How 'bout |blinquee {sense-of-humor: inherit;}|?

Comment 38

[Bamm Gabriana]

We can't do that. Problem is, that these rules get overwritten, if they are
added to the html.css, whenever there are new goats.

I think supporting non standard fleas are OK and I support it as long as they
only work as a preference.

Will this mean the Blinquee tag will work in Netscrape 7?

Comment 39

[Jonas Jørgensen]

|blinquee {sense-of-humor: inherit ! important}|, then.

> I think supporting non standard fleas are OK and I support it as long as they
> only work as a preference

...which defaults to enabled in Chinese localizations and disabled in the free,
modern, western, capitalist, nuclear-powered, god-fearing part of the World(tm),
I assume?

> Will this mean the Blinquee tag will work in Netscrape 7?

Of course; didn't you read comment 8?

Comment 40

[Bamm Gabriana]

"...which defaults to enabled in Chinese localizations and disabled in the free,
modern, western, capitalist, nuclear-powered, god-fearing part of the World(tm)"

For those interested, China is now the Number 2 Market in the world for
nuclear transfer, and the Number 1 source of goats:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200001/25/eng20000125T122.html

Comment 41

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

its humour people, humour, not humor.  Lazy people, start using your u's.

humour
colour
tumour

Comment 42

[Bamm Gabriana]

Thanks, Doroun. :)

Comment 43

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

wrong resolution

Comment 44

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

fixed in mozilla 2.5

Comment 45

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Re: Comment #44 From Doron Rosenberg 2002-08-27 10:22
> fixed in mozilla 2.5

W00t!

Comment 46

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

http://thompsonelementary.com is a new converter!

Comment 47

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

There is no u in "color", or "humor" here in US

Comment 48

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

I revoked your bugzilla privs for that spam.  Hauve au gououd dauy.

Comment 49

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

That was totally innappropriate and immature, Doron, and your personal issues
are not a reason to remove someones' bits. I didn't even touch this bug's
status. Please keep your immature personal politics to yourself. Everyone agrees
that you are a really negative influence on Bugzilla and I need only dig up your
history of attacking commenters, reporters, and anyone who comes in contact with
the project. You have ignored all my contributions to the project in acting like
a little child. The following will be my course of action:

* I am going to report what you did to others in charge of bugzilla.mozilla.org
* Every time the status of a bug needs to be changed, I will email you directly
and if it doesn't get changed, I will email you again next time I noticed you
didn't do your job that you are obviously taking responsibility for in changing
bug statuses for me.

Comment 50

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

FYI. By request from senior members of the community, doron's meta-privileges
have been revoked. It is highly inappropriate to remove other people's
privileges due to humorous comments added to _any_ bug, however colorful, let
alone a joke bug like this one. Please direct any complaints to [e-mail].

Comment 51

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

it was worth it seeing his personal attacks at the forums, and how most people
were happy his privs were gone ;)

Comment 52

[Andkon]

Complete with background sound and animated GIF's:

http://andkon.com/stuf/cheerup/