HTML The Definitive Guide (141 page)

Reiterate the title here ...Insert your document's contents here...

14.3 Server -Push Documents

15.2 Trivial or Abusive?

Chapter 15

Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

15.2 Trivial or Abusive?

There is perhaps no more abused or abusive HTML document device than the tag
extension for text content currently supported by, thank heaven, only the Netscape browser.[2]

[2] Internet Explorer is just as guilty; be thankful you don't find many HTML documents using the browser's equally tacky feature.

It works by alternating the color of the text enclosed between the tag and its end tag () - incessantly! It's not only ugly (reminiscent of the very bad video-text displays on a hotel TV), but it's excruciatingly annoying. The reader can't turn it off except to scroll beyond that
portion of the document or hyperlink out of the document altogether. [Physical Style Tags, 4.5]

Okay, so it grabs readers' attention to make an important point. Just make sure it's a very important point. And here's a tip: Make it easy for the reader to get by the blinking segment in your document.

Surround it with empty space or with pleasant, but vacuous content that they don't have to read.

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