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Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by doug1001 »

Oh, well. The important thing is that humankind has evolved since then: Never embed an animation effect in our markup.Today's web designer understands separation of content, presentation, and behavior. To 'blink', create a jQuery plug-in

A second and just-as-important lesson: never use blinking animation by itself. For maximum aesthetic appeal, use blink in precise syncronicity with the other core web site building blocks--pulsate, throb, flicker, and strobe.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by jaredsohn »

batista wrote: post #49
derleth wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> marguee This tague was only implemented by Netsgape Naviguator.

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

Your comment deserves a woosh, but this isn't reddit. The parent post was making fun of a spelling error by making similar errors in 'tag', 'Netscape' and 'Navigator'.

Your comment is also wrong in that marquee actually originated in Internet Explorer 3. I remember when there were webpages that would blink in Netscape and marquee in Internet Explorer since each browser had its own proprietary annoying tag.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by function_seven »

prawn wrote: post #9
unreal37 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Key words being "first wife". Combine that with , it sounds like it was a bad night all around.

Didn't read the article, but did it say "first and only"? ;)

It did not. Nobody refers to their current wife as "my first wife." If he was still married to her, it would simply be "my wife"

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by prawn »

function_seven wrote: post #53
prawn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't read the article, but did it say "first and only"? ;)

It did not. Nobody refers to their current wife as "my first wife." If he was still married to her, it would simply be "my wife"

They may do if they have multiple wives, right? In which case, from the perspective of the husband, it might not have been a bad night all around which was my (poorly made) point.

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by Sniffnoy »

rangibaby wrote: post #47
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...

Lou Montulli says in a Slashdot comment[1] that the tag played a sound clip of Marca saying "What is Global Hypermedia?" (Now who is Marca? I'm guessing Marc Andreesen? I assume he intended this to be clear from context but I'm not familiar with these people.)

[1] http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=507112&cid=2293...

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by ralfd »

rangibaby wrote: post #47
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...

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=507112&cid=2293...

> The tag played a sound clip of Marca saying "What is Global Hypermedia?"

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by rangibaby »

rangibaby wrote: post #47
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...

A search for that phrase led me to this: http://www.totic.org/

Mystery solved! :-)

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

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Post by jonp »

function_seven wrote: post #53
prawn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't read the article, but did it say "first and only"? ;)

It did not. Nobody refers to their current wife as "my first wife." If he was still married to her, it would simply be "my wife"

One (admittedly rare) counterexample is the late Sir Clement Freud:

"We remain together. I call her 'my first wife' to keep her on her toes."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5165998/Sir-Clement-Freud...

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