Sometime in the 2000s I learned that using the css left attribute to animate marquee like text flows, worked much better (smoother and I think also performance wise). I was a bit surprised, that some handmade marquee was performing better than the native original.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/marqu...
, the "under construction" GIFs:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/9akenz/this-guy-compiled-eve...
and those lightsaber horizontal content dividers.