The origins of the blink HTML element • Hacker News Board

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by guccimane » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 2:58 AM UTC

latchkey wrote: post #25

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

Yup, also animated status bar text.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by mingfu » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 3:01 AM UTC

Lou is my boss. I could try to get him on here to answer any questions people may have if enough interest.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by vinayan3 » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 3:27 AM UTC

The guy who went and implemented is a true hacker. He deserves applause. Everyone has those conversations where people say wouldn't this be funny. That guy did it and will forever live in the annuals of HTML. I should unleash a practical joke of my own...

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by creamyhorror » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 3:35 AM UTC

Bezvezenator wrote: post #35

swombat wrote: post #2

the 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

Nice thread, I laughed at this:

http://www.courageunfettered.com/stuf/cheerup/

CHEER UP!

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by ianisborn » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 3:52 AM UTC

I worked with the engineer he mentions. Really low-key guy, a grizzled veteran of the internet.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by cek » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 4:03 AM UTC

I highly recommend you take the time to read Lou's bio. A lot of what is possible on the Web today came from his contributions:

http://www.montulli.org/lou

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by rangibaby » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 4:04 AM UTC

thought_alarm wrote: post #18

The tag, another undocumented easter egg, sadly didn't catch on in the same way.

What did that acutally do? JWZ teased about it[1] as part of the things he posted for Mozilla's 10th anniversary.

[1] http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by rachelbythebay » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 5:03 AM UTC

js2 wrote: post #37

I found the tag so offensive that I used to "emacs the binary" (Netscape) and null out the "blink" string. This was quite effective.

This was also a great way to stop GIF animations from looping. A quick mangling of the string it looked for to find the extensions would let them play through once but not repeat.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by batista » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 6:08 AM UTC

derleth wrote: post #14

blhack wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh man, Item 1 Item 2 I had the coolest news ticket on my angelfire page!

> marguee This tague was only implemented by Netsgape Naviguator.

Which was the only browser that mattered at the time, anyway...

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by jacobr » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 7:12 AM UTC

blhack wrote: post #4

swombat wrote: post #2

the 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 ...

Oh man, Item 1 Item 2 I had the coolest news ticket on my angelfire page!

Instead of presentational elements, you should use CSS!

http://davidwalsh.name/webkit-marquee-css http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee/