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Re: Blink tag removed from Firefox

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Post by gsnedders »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #79
mcav wrote: post #21

All snark aside, I wonder what the rationale was for doing this. It'd be a shame to load a website in a browser 20 years from now, only to see the site render incorrectly due to no-longer-implemented tags. Next, ? It's tough, obviously, because we can't have cruft build up all over. But this seems like a fairly straightforward case that a browser could shim out in JavaScript by default. Blink is a pretty straightforw…

The tag has been deprecated for 13 years.

As far as I'm aware, the longest deprecated HTML elements are XMP, LISTING and PLAINTEXT: first deprecated in the IIIR HTML draft (Jun '93).

Re: Blink tag removed from Firefox

#82

Post by dyml »

krapp wrote: post #23
jallmann wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But seeing tables being used for layout annoys me far more than the blink tag. How come? CSS positioning is pretty unintuitive, and sometimes it's just easier to get something working with tables. If the end results look fine, what's the problem? Table-based layouts aren't in-your-face like the blink tag was. Oh, and don't view-source on HN ;)

My problems are mostly how easy it is to get lost if you're dealing with nested tables within tables (especially inside templates), and that they have to be completely read before rendering... although that may no longer necessarily be an issue with modern browsers. I find divs and spans easier myself but I guess, yeah, at the end of the day if it looks fine and it loads fine then it's fine. Too much pain from hand-c…

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Re: Blink tag removed from Firefox

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Post by Achshar »

Bockit wrote: post #75
jacobr wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oddly enough Chrome/Blink still has the String.prototype.blink method to create a blink tag from a string. If I recall correctly it's actually part of an ES (not DOM) standard.

Wow. Because this surprised me so much, I just found out that if you open up a node REPL and type 'hello'.blink() you get ' Hello ' returned. So I guess it's an ES thing and it boggles my mind. I was trying to find the ES standard where it's specified but I'll settle for this[1] instead. Interestingly enough you have quite a few HTML wrapping functions as part of the spec. [1]: http://javascript.spec.whatwg.org/#stri…

What could possibly be the use of that.

Re: Blink tag removed from Firefox

#86

Post by sp332 »

marshray wrote: post #52
ryanpetrich wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't like the direction the Mozilla Corporation is taking Firefox, you're free to disable automatic updates, revert to a previous version of the browser, or even fork your own version of Firefox. It's not tyrannical to want new versions of Firefox to present a better user experience and be less confusing to everyday users.

... and not receive security patches.

Version 17 is the Extended Support Release and still gets security patches. Or, "I had those security holes right where I wanted them! Quit breaking my browser grr!"

Re: Blink tag removed from Firefox

#87

Post by ncarroll »

pamelafox wrote: post #26

Aww, man. I love using (in FF) and (in Chrome) when giving presentations, they're such crowd pleasers. At least Chrome still has , I used it in a talk just 2 days ago. Hope they don't follow FF's lead.

I just used in a blog post last week. For my purpose it served as a visual pointer to the past. I'll be sorry to lose it too.

Re: Blink tag removed from Firefox

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Post by nnnnni »

Achshar wrote: post #84
Bockit wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. Because this surprised me so much, I just found out that if you open up a node REPL and type 'hello'.blink() you get ' Hello ' returned. So I guess it's an ES thing and it boggles my mind. I was trying to find the ES standard where it's specified but I'll settle for this[1] instead. Interestingly enough you have quite a few HTML wrapping functions as part of the spec. [1]: http://javascript.spec.whatwg.org/#stri…

What could possibly be the use of that.

    
    
        var str="•";
        document.write(str.blink());
That would make a blinking red dot. It'd be good for status lights, I guess.

Re: Blink tag removed from Firefox

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Post by krapp »

dyml wrote: post #82
krapp wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My problems are mostly how easy it is to get lost if you're dealing with nested tables within tables (especially inside templates), and that they have to be completely read before rendering... although that may no longer necessarily be an issue with modern browsers. I find divs and spans easier myself but I guess, yeah, at the end of the day if it looks fine and it loads fine then it's fine. Too much pain from hand-c…

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Yes, i was being sarcastic.
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