Safari and the "marquee" tag

A friend, working on a site for our community band society, has included a scrolling marquee to show information about the 'next performance. We've already dealt with the "size" issue (see below)*, but one more annoying issue remains.

When the page is opened in Safari (2.0.4), then jumped to the anchor for Performances, scrolling starts normally, but freezes before the scrolling text reaches the left edge of the page. Clicking the Reload button reloads the page, and scrolling then runs as expected. Also, based on a single trial just now, forcing a fresh load by emptying Safari's cache just before opening the page results in the marquee scrolling normally,

Any cure that can be applied to the page itself?

Current coding is as shown (content differs, tag markers replaced with !-open and !!-close)

!font color="#35D2EA" style="font-size: 15pt"!!
!marquee height="25">content 1 x xxxx xxxxx content2 yyy yyyyy yyyyy -- content2zzzzz zzz zzz zzz</marquee><!--mstheme--></h1!!

Page is at <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://bandemonium.org
Click Concert Band, then click Performances.

Regards,
Barry

*Size issue: MSIE and Firefox will display the scrolling marquee properly with Font and Marquee sizes set to the same value. For Safari, it's necessary to allow some headroom by setting the Marquee size to a higher value than the Font size (as seen in the coding above).
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Posted on Mar 17, 2008 11:41 AM

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Mar 17, 2008 3:57 PM in response to Klaus1

"Works fine in the latest (up to date) Safari 3.0.4."


Thanks, Klaus,

Did you close the page, visit one or more different sites, then return to the page? The problem seems to arise from opening the cached version.


Good to know it's working with Safari 3, but that doesn't solve the problem of visitors who come to the site using Safari 2.


Regards,
Barry

Mar 19, 2008 12:18 AM in response to Barry

Barry wrote:
A friend, working on a site for our community band society, has included a scrolling marquee to show information about the 'next performance.


The marquee tag is proprietary to IE, and its use is deprecated by W3C. Safari will basically be handling it as part of its error handling, not as a valid piece of HTML. I wouldn't be expecting perfection here. You might also note that the web page has around 80 errors in its HTML, so all browsers will be trying to cope with it via error handling, rather than as a standard web page.

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