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Re: Blink

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Post by richardwhiuk »

DangerousPie wrote: post #13
m_st wrote: post #11

This query shouldn't work in Firefox 23+, no? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

It's not actually a blink tag but CSS: em { animation: 1s steps(1, end) 0s normal none infinite blink; }

Marquee likewise is not implemented using the tag.

Re: Blink

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Post by philbarr »

deadfish wrote: post #12
smegel wrote: post #10

Am I the only one not getting this? Is it supposed to make me want to blink along with it? What's the point?

You are either too young or not a web developer :D https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

I'm guessing, "too young".

"Eeh...back in my day, it were blink and marquee tags as far as the eye could see. We were doing web development for below minimum wage back then you see, and every hour, our cruel overlords would drag us out of the basements in which we worked and beat us. CSS?! HTML Tables it was in MY day lad!! Didn't 'ave none of this fancy styling business. We were at the HTML coal face then, yer see! Don't know yer born you young 'uns...."

etc.etc.

Re: Blink

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Post by nevi-me »

riquito wrote: post #23

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%3Cblink%3E I wasn't really expecting an easter egg, but was surprised to not find a single result about html. Does it strip any non alphabetic character?

I did a \ trying to see what DDG would do, and it keeps sending me to some blinkfitness.com website. Anyone know what action backslashes add?

Re: Blink

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Post by danielweber »

deadfish wrote: post #12
smegel wrote: post #10

Am I the only one not getting this? Is it supposed to make me want to blink along with it? What's the point?

You are either too young or not a web developer :D https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

In today's edition of How To Feel Old: there are some professional web developers younger than .
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