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Can you hear me now? What about with bgsound?
Added 2010-01-02

Can you hear me now? Then you must be using IE, which still supports the BGSOUND tag for some reason. Of course, the best use of this feature is to play midi files.

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Obscure Tags:
  • Can you hear me now? What about with bgsound? :
  • To the Infinity tag... and beyond! :
  • Inline editing... devolved : IE CONTENTEDITABLE Attribute example
  • Uncoverer of the terrible secret of the spacer tag : spacer tag example
  • Cute as a button tag : button tag example
  • Keygen Challenges You... : keygen tag example
  • If you can read this, you're too close : small tag example
  • The word is broken... : wbr tag example
  • Go big or stay home : big tag example
  • Searching for something like isindex? : isindex example
  • If you can see this image, you must be using Firefox : data url example
  • D to the l to the dd and dt : definition list example
  • The Marquee Biz... : marquee tag example
  • A diamond in the rough : ruby text example
  • Is that addressed to me? : address tag example
  • And I quote... : q tag example
  • Correcting mistakes with del and ins : del and ins examples
  • You can use bdo to reverse text direction : bdo tag example
  • The old-skool way of doing emphasis. : old emphasis tag examples
  • The secret of acronym : acronym example
  • Das Blinkentag : blink tag example
  • Optgroup label=something : optgroup tag example
  • Applying a label tag : label tag example
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