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Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by chris_wot » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 11:06 PM UTC

geoffpado wrote: post #19

hammerbrostime wrote: post #15

I have to say, I find the blink tag to be quaint form of vulgar web design. I'm rather disappointed that it isn't supported by webkit. At least animated gifs still work http://www.lingscars.com/

It can with a bit of CSS magic: https://gist.github.com/75603244b7e96ecb0bd2

Truly evil.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by altcognito » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 11:12 PM UTC

Interesting that the blink tag never made it into Lynx since it should have been relatively trivial given that there is an ANSI escape sequence for it. I have fond memories of dialing up a BBS with dramatic blinking warnings and ANSI style art that had elaborate blinking designs.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by emp_ » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 11:16 PM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #16

salimmadjd wrote: post #12

Oh...the days of blink, frames and animated gif. We thought we were so creative then :)

Don't forget the "mirrored in water" Java applet, loaded 50 times, once for each image.

Somewhat relevant http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3854047

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by RedwoodCity » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 11:25 PM UTC

m0nty wrote: post #3

Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.

Much better than the Ad that swings into the middle of the browser screen tag

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by latchkey » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 11:39 PM UTC

Anyone remember animated tags? You put a bunch of them into the document and the browser would render them one by one. So disturbing.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by kprobst » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 11:46 PM UTC

salimmadjd wrote: post #12

Oh...the days of blink, frames and animated gif. We thought we were so creative then :)

Don't forget the eponymous "Under construction" animated gif. The halcyon days of web design.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by thrownaway2424 » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 11:58 PM UTC

"Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office..."

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 12:01 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #20

derleth wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> marguee This tague was only implemented by Netsgape Naviguator.

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Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by redthrowaway » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 12:05 AM UTC

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #27

"Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office..."

If you watch Code Rush, which I highly recommend, you'll see that they worked crazilly hard at Netscape back in the day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by Teapot » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 12:14 AM UTC

m0nty wrote: post #3

Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.

And animated gifs. They all have thier uses though. It's harder to think anything useful for blink.

The cops needs the blink tag for thier emergency ASCII,

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