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After getting 300 megs of wiki content spam, I deleted the old wiki over at http://www.jspatterns.com.

Now restarted the project as a blog with static pages for the javascript patterns and blog posts for anything interesting in the ever so exciting world of JavaScript. So far nothing special there (example), but keep an eye on it, as I plan to fill up the TOC (recovered from the old wiki) with top quality content

I suck at design and wasted two nights to come up with some custom wordpress theme for the new blog. I like the result, but that's just me. I also made the theme available for download, in case someone wants to consider it for a future project.

Talking of spam, yesterday my host deleted 2 gigs!!! of email spam from my hosting account, how crazy is that.

The new JSPatterns.com is running the latest release candidate WordPress 2.5, slick stuff.

Marquee (<marquee>) - does anybody remember this IE-only HTML tag? Does anybody still use it? This sooo ooold, pre-historic, 20th century, Web1.0-ish tag . Thinking about marquee and falling into a nostalgic mood, how about the blink tag, eh? OK, I simply cannot resist the temptation of using them here.

marquee - Look ma, stuff moves without JS!
This blinks, doesn't it?

How cool is that!

Actually I was a bit surprised to find out that Firefox supports marquee. I wonder when did this non-standard, behavioural and otherwise totally plain wrong tag slip through the cracks. Anyway, that's not the point.

Today I was visiting a site (no URL, sorry) and I noticed some weirdness at the bottom of the page. Viewing the source had a surprise in store - a 1 pixel wide marquee tag full of keywords, many keywords, repeated keywords, search engine keywords... you get the point. Apparently this was aiming at the poor googlebot and the other search engine spiders, trying to convince them that this page is worth more (in keyword weight) than it actually is. Spammers!

Here's an example of the spam technique.
<marquee width="1">Blah, blah, some keywords and more keywords</marquee>

Oh well...