Ron Newman ([personal profile] ron_newman) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2006-06-12 03:33 pm
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zipper sign

The Middlesex Federal Savings Bank has installed an electric 'zipper' sign wrapping around the corner of Highland and College Avenue. I don't know what they plan to do with it.

Right now it's mostly dark, but a few days ago I saw a test pattern displayed on it.

[identity profile] ah42.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Zipper sign? I'm not familiar with this terminology.

[identity profile] ah42.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. I had always thought the term was 'marquee,' partially due to the <marquee> HTML tag. But it appears that the term 'marquee' refers to the permanent canopy over an entrance, and not the signage upon it.

[identity profile] ah42.livejournal.com 2006-06-12 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
This line is in the <marquee> tag

Only some browsers support it, mostly older netscape browsers, and modern mozilla-based browsers. It scrolls text horizontally.

geek trivia

[identity profile] mattdm [typekey.com] (from livejournal.com) 2006-06-13 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting that Firefox now supports this. I don't think the old Netscape Navigator ever did -- this one was invented by Microsoft. I think it's their first extension to standard HTML, actually -- a one-upmanship over Netscape's blink tag. Anyway, it's still not part of the HTML standard and even Microsoft calls it "deprecated".

[identity profile] joylewis.livejournal.com 2006-06-13 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I definitely shuddered when I first read "electric zipper".

[identity profile] clevernonsense.livejournal.com 2006-06-15 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
I want an electric zipper so I can connect it up to 'the clapper'

[identity profile] mattlistener.livejournal.com 2006-06-14 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE"

(favorite quote from a zipper-sign installation at the MFA.)

new thread -June 24, 2006

[identity profile] cleanup-davissq.livejournal.com 2006-06-24 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
new thread -June 24, 2006