Is it possible to animate type or scroll type across a page?

Question

I'd like to add a banner with text that moves from the right side of the page to the left. Its an announcement of a new location for a business. Is there a way to do this in Muse?
thanks,
Barbara

Answer 1

Hey everyone,
First off, I want to apologize for the confusion caused here, as there was a few things that went wrong in leading to this, and I'll try to clear things up.
The marquee tag is actually supposed to be a throwback and easter egg in Muse. Much like our secret snowman, this is meant to be little secret buried away for some extra fun and isn't intended for use on real Muse sites.
The marquee is an older tag in HTML, and is usually met with some chuckles from web developers. It came from a time when things like this, and it’s often cited sibling, blink, were wild new things you could make websites do. They came before many modern widgets and functionality and were a way to show off what the web might some day be. However, because of some issues with accessibility, usability, and performance, web developers have, for a while now, opted to not use this feature of HTML. In fact, HTML has never officially supported this feature. We do our best on the Muse team to make sure our code, your exported output, will always validate to the latest standards. But this tag is one case where our output would fail to validate. In this case, because this is a partially hidden extra, we looked the other way a little bit.
That said, just like our snow, we recommend you do not use it on live websites. The marquee has some inherent issues for accessibility, performance, and browser support. Many browser vendors aren’t sold on the usefulness of the marquee tag and may stop supporting it at some point in the future. Most support for the tag has remained because some very old sites (10-15+ years) used it in ways that were crucial for use of the site. It can also cause issues for users who are using screen reading technologies, or have poor vision, as the scrolling text can be hard to read. Also, because this does not validate to the standards, it is possible there is an impact on SEO (though we haven’t looked into this enough to say for sure).
The Muse engineering team did not do a good job in communicating this to our support staff, so they saw this and recommended it. And as you stumbled across these issues, they brought them to our attention and we realized our mistakes. Also, as something that will hurt your site's accessibility, performance, cross-browser compatability, and SEO, this is something we should have either clarified better, or handled differently. Because of this confusion, the marquee option has been removed in the next major version of Muse. We want to make sure to help your sites be as great as possible, and unfortunately we cannot do that with this option.
That isn't to say you cannot get this functionality in your site, you will just have to use other methods to do so. The best, and most forward looking method for this will be to use something like Edge Animate, where you can animate your text, and use File > Place to place the .oam packaged file in Muse. Edge Animate creates forward looking, modern animations using HTML5 and the latest standards, and can be used to create this or other more complex animations.
Hopefully that clears things up a little bit. And once again, sorry for the mix up,
Andrew Hushbeck
QE - Adobe Muse