I don't need CSS

HeyLoura: A Standard's Rebel

Weird Web October
2024 Submissions

This is an ode to before.

A time when the HTML standard allowed you to style a webpage.
You were not burdened with adding a style sheet, and table layouts reigned supreme.
Now such whimsy disappears.

Gif flashing a 'Beware' in red text with a fake blood effect

Others are warned away from this path:
ignore the deprecations at your own peril.

scrrenshot of a deprecation notice on mdn

The height of excellence

The humble marquee tag

100% proven to distract
your website visitors

Attributes

  • bgColor
  • align
  • valign
  • alink
  • link
  • topmargin
  • leftmargin
  • border
  • cellpadding
  • cellspacing
  • Tags

  • <tt>
  • <font>
  • <center>
  • <dir>
  • <strike>
  • <acronym>
  • <big>
  • As browsers, with their march forward, leave behind such treasures things.
    One day, dear visitor, you will visit this page and see
    the colors gone and the blinking text stilled.

    And a DVD logo that will never have the chance to hit the corner.

    P.S. the bouncing logo is a <marquee> tag.

    Elements that did not work in edge or chrome when I tested them.

  • Frame & Frameset
  • Blink
  • Gifs are from gifcities