Live data from Hacker News

The origins of the blink HTML element

71–72 of 72 posts

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

#71

Post by EliAndrewC » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 4:47 AM UTC

alttag wrote: post #33

Teapot wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And animated gifs. They all have thier uses though. It's harder to think anything useful for blink. The cops needs the blink tag for thier emergency ASCII, _ o ___ ____/ _| _ \___ | o o |

Several years ago I visited a site that purported to have discovered the only acceptable use for the blink tag: Schrödinger's cat is not dead.

I believe that this is the origin of that joke: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427

Re: The origins of the blink HTML element

#72

Post by kpreid » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

swah wrote: post #38

commanderkeen08 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget the "tables" used for layout. Oh wait, my bank still does this. Oh wait, so does Yale University.

Also, the only way to use the "remaining" space when you have two fixed width columns inside a bigger div IIRC :P

display: (table | table-cell | table-row);

Same layout functionality, no abuse of HTML semantics.

Post reply on HN