Semantically it might have been better authored as the 'pester' element, with blinking being one implementation.
The origins of the blink HTML element
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Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#62I thought it might have been inspired to mimic a cursor blink. But no.
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#63the 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 ...
No no, those were exceptions, easy too handle. The really most despicable tag is by far the tag, or should I say ?
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#64Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Please pardon my off-topic question. What does `woosh' mean on reddit anyway?
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#66Semantically it might have been better authored as the 'pester' element, with blinking being one implementation.
Yes. But this was the age of font-tags.
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Please pardon my off-topic question. What does `woosh' mean on reddit anyway?
People will say 'woosh' if somebody took a joking comment seriously because the humor was too sophisticated. People use this word because it is the sound made when the comment goes over someone's head (here, the comment is treated like an airplane.)
Urbandictionary can be a good place to look up this kind of thing, if you read it selectively. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoosh
Also, since I can no longer edit my earlier comment, it was actually derleth's comment that I was factually correcting (although he likely said that because it allowed the joke to work better).
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#68The 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...
I didn't know about the hype tag, but for a really long time, at least on the Unix Navigator, you could type "about:hype" into the location bar and it would play marca's audio.
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Please pardon my off-topic question. What does `woosh' mean on reddit anyway?
The usual spelling is whoosh, by the way.
Re: The origins of the blink HTML element
#70Oh...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.
Which is why I think it is rather humours that Jquery is using it on their plugin page. http://plugins.jquery.com/