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Re: Google search for “blink html”

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Post by ZoF »

userbinator wrote: post #16
chrismorgan wrote: post #7

I looked at it and wondered what was so special about it. Only when I read the comments did I suspect that I had been protected from some great evil by my browser. You see, I use Firefox. Firefox removed support a while ago.

If my filtering proxy caught , I'd get everything bolded instead. ( http://i61.tinypic.com/20i77kl.png )

Heh, funny in this context because the only items on the page that are blinking are those which would normally be bold anyway as they were in the query.

Re: Google search for “blink html”

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Post by ZoF »

chrismorgan wrote: post #7

I looked at it and wondered what was so special about it. Only when I read the comments did I suspect that I had been protected from some great evil by my browser. You see, I use Firefox. Firefox removed support a while ago.

Honestly though; I bet you use chrome, didn't even bother to see if this worked in Firefox, and saw this as an opportunity to trash another browser based on your knowledge that support was deprecated.

I use Chrome, I like it better than Firefox, I also knew blink was deprecated in FF and had the same thought(would this work in firefox?) because I hadn't bothered to check if this was done using CSS or the tag. Although I didn't consider commenting on it.

Unless you're using a version of firefox older than 24 this is a pretty weird statement.

Re: Google search for “blink html”

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Post by sp332 »

Greenisus wrote: post #2

I've wanted them to do this for years, and I know I'm not the first person to think of it. I wonder what made them decide to finally try out a user experience like this.

There are a bunch like this. Try "recursion", "the answer to life, the universe and everything", "tilt", "barrel roll", "kerning" (and "keming"), "google pacman", "zerg rush", or "conway's game of life".

Re: Google search for “blink html”

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Post by chrismorgan »

ZoF wrote: post #26
chrismorgan wrote: post #7

I looked at it and wondered what was so special about it. Only when I read the comments did I suspect that I had been protected from some great evil by my browser. You see, I use Firefox. Firefox removed support a while ago.

Honestly though; I bet you use chrome, didn't even bother to see if this worked in Firefox, and saw this as an opportunity to trash another browser based on your knowledge that support was deprecated. I use Chrome, I like it better than Firefox, I also knew blink was deprecated in FF and had the same thought(would this work in firefox?) because I hadn't bothered to check if this was done using CSS or the tag. Althoug…

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rather solid Mozilla/Firefox fan. I have Chromium installed for verification that things work with my web development, but that's all I use it for. I much prefer Firefox. It was only when I read the comments that had been made here that I remembered that Firefox had removed support and checked it in Chrome to see what had been intended.

I did not actually check at that point that it had used but assumed. This was an error.

As it happens, I run Nightly and for whatever reason the animation is not functioning there. I presume it's faulty browser detection on their part or the lack of a prefix-free version or some such thing.

Re: Google search for “blink html”

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Post by ZoF »

chrismorgan wrote: post #28
ZoF wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly though; I bet you use chrome, didn't even bother to see if this worked in Firefox, and saw this as an opportunity to trash another browser based on your knowledge that support was deprecated. I use Chrome, I like it better than Firefox, I also knew blink was deprecated in FF and had the same thought(would this work in firefox?) because I hadn't bothered to check if this was done using CSS or the tag. Althoug…

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rather solid Mozilla/Firefox fan. I have Chromium installed for verification that things work with my web development, but that's all I use it for. I much prefer Firefox. It was only when I read the comments that had been made here that I remembered that Firefox had removed support and checked it in Chrome to see what had been intended. I did not actually check at that point that…

Good to hear.

Sorry for being a dick; it just seemed like you were trying to make an anti-FF statement based on prior knowledge and nothing else, glad to hear it was just their nightly build not functioning properly.

For what it's worth, I prefer FF as a company, but I like Chrome for syncing tabs and the developer tools.

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