<marquee> html tag usage/replacment

Question

I know that <marquee> tags are evil.
If it is so bad to have scrolling text, then using JS to get the same effect doesn't make it any better, right?

And suppose I decided to have some scrolling text (gasp), is there some type of CSS(3?) or HTML(5?) way to do this that is technically correct (i.e. not deprecated)?

If there isn't a CSS/HTML solution, should I use:

• Javascript, which will be heavier to download and might be turned off (is that a pro or a con?), but I get the bonus of being W3C correct and valid and non-deprecated and smart,

or should I use

• the hated <marquee> (<blink><blink>) tag, which is lightweight (19 bytes!), fully supported by all browsers in all rendering modes and all doctypes (even though it shouldn't be), but is deprecated?

Thanks.

P.S. I think a news ticker is a valid use for marquee-style
P.P.S. If anybody tells me that if I don't want a heavy Javascript solution I should use JQuery because it is lightweight, I will shoot them in the comments

Edit: I'm adding JQuery tag since that seems to be the best way to get attention from a lot of experts on JS questions, and it is not totally unrelated here.

Answer 1

It is not the effect that is bad. The problem with marquee, blink and font tags is that they convey presentation not structure of your content.

Answer 2

CSS3 has support for marquee, but it is only supported in a few browsers (Safari and Chrome are the only one, to my knowledge)

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee/

There are several JQuery plugins that accomplish it, but they come at the expense of loading JQuery (26Kb, heavier than the HTML only solution, but not what I would call heavy)

http://plugins.jquery.com/plugin-tags/marquee

Of course you can easily do it yourself without JQuery, but looking at those plugins may give you ideas.

Another option to consider is to do a small Flash animation.