Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.
If it were the worst thing we had to deal with nowadays, do you think there'd be a Chrome extension called NoBlink?
The origins of the blink HTML element
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Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#32Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.
If it were the worst thing we had to deal with nowadays, do you think there'd be a Chrome extension called NoBlink?
It's annoying enough that disabling blink is a built-in feature in Firefox
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#33Given 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, _ o ___ ____/ _| _ \___ | o o |
Several years ago I visited a site that purported to have discovered the only acceptable use for the blink tag:
Schrödinger's cat is not dead.Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#34Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.
Perhaps, but those allow us to do things we otherwise couldn't. The blink tag just made annoying blinky text.
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#35the tag will probably be remembered as the most hated of all HTML tags I don't know... it's a pretty close race between and ...
And let's not forget blinquee http://bugzil.la/163050
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#36Oh...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.
Don't forget the "tables" used for layout.
Oh wait, my bank still does this. Oh wait, so does Yale University.
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#37I found the tag so offensive that I used to "emacs the binary" (Netscape) and null out the "blink" string. This was quite effective.
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't forget the eponymous "Under construction" animated gif. The halcyon days of web design.
Don't forget the "tables" used for layout. Oh wait, my bank still does this. Oh wait, so does Yale University.
Also, the only way to use the "remaining" space when you have two fixed width columns inside a bigger div IIRC :P
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#39the tag will probably be remembered as the most hated of all HTML tags I don't know... it's a pretty close race between and ...
its both. probably the advent of web.
good to know all
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh man, Item 1 Item 2 I had the coolest news ticket on my angelfire page!
You're making me nostalgic to the bone...