Time for another installation of "Crimes Against Web Standards" I think. Were we annoying much? Clever, but so annoying. Not to mention this is such an insult to #A11Y and the holy grail that has become the title element. But it's funny. And I'm laughing. #HTML
@meyerweb@mastodon.social @meyerweb
16 Apr 2020
I raise you both animating title bars in Netscape Navigator 1.x like so: <title>W</title> <title>We</title> <title>Wel</title> <title>Welc</title> <title>Welco</title> <title>Welcom</title> <title>Welcome</title> <title>Welcome </title> <title>Welcome t</title> …et cetera
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<body> <blink> <marquee> <h1> Hello world! </h1> <p> Does this page grab your attention? I bet it does! It’s just amazing how much you can do to really capture those 1995 eyeballs! </p> </marquee> </blink> </body>
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Wait. Aren't those supposed to be uppercase? That's how I remember it lol.
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Replying to @saltnburnem @meyerweb
Upper, lower, and mixed too! Everyone had their own way and it was awfully difficult in the earlier days to deal with the case, spacing and other issues. I stopped looking at source in 2017 as it's worse now. Still no standards! Lots to laugh about though ;-)

Apr 29, 2020 · 11:31 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @saltnburnem
Exactly, and the same is true today. You can write your HTML as <title>, <TITLE>, or <tItLe> if you like! I occasionally think about going back to my old <STYLE type=“text/css” media=“screen”></STYLE> pattern…
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Unless markup is served as XML - then case matters, as we learned via XHTML. HTML51 2nd Edition describes this as XHTML 5.1: This spec defines the latest version of the XHTML syntax, known as "XHTML 5.1" w3.org/TR/html51/introductio… Eric: I only used media="projecton" around you :D
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