Comments on: Now you see it, now you don't

Now you see it, now you don't

dg — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:10:19 -0800

Now you see it, now you don't. The infamous blink tag, maligned for so long by almost, but not quite everyone, can now be supported in IE. Isn't that great news?

By: dg

dg — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:18:29 -0800

Forgot - via Webmonkey. Hey, just be glad I didn't post it with blink tags as well :-)

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:21:06 -0800

What hath God wrought?

By: answergrape

answergrape — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:31:00 -0800

Is it wrong that I'm suddenly nostalgic for the blink tag?

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:32:23 -0800

I remember way back, (maybe 95 or so), netscape put some link on their site saying "Are you sick of blink" or that they had developed some new "blink" technology, and the page linked to a blinking gif... this was before animated gifs were in netscape, it was done with server refresh. Quite odd.

By: 10sball

10sball — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:53:56 -0800

body { text-decoration:blink; } <<< the new BLINK™

By: Monk

Monk — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:05:46 -0800

Or use the marquee hack.

By: answergrape

answergrape — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:09:25 -0800

Ok, I think that has cured me of my blink nostalgia, Monk. You can stop it now, right?

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:20:24 -0800

(blinks) (recoils)

By: benjh

benjh — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:33:36 -0800

It would appear Safari doesn't support any of these blinking techniques. Yet another thing Apple does correctly.

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:34:35 -0800

Monk, please stop it!

By: jcruelty

jcruelty — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:46:46 -0800

man just the other day i was longing for the blink tag!! bestill my blinking heart.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:53:00 -0800

Once the teacher of one of my english classes made an entire paragraph blink. It was nearly impossible to read.

By: birdherder

birdherder — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:09:45 -0800

where are the mozilla folks to remind us that moz supports the blink tag natively?

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:13:20 -0800

Wheee! Oh, thanks ever so much, Monk.

By: jonson

jonson — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:53:40 -0800

In mozilla, I can right click on yhbc & monk's user ids and inflict pain on the both of them directly from my desktop.

By: filchyboy

filchyboy — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:04:08 -0800

I recently tried to build a page using lowsrc (?). It's been so long. Anyway it didn't work on any of the browesers I had handy. Strangely I had no desire to use, for old times sake, blink.

By: Monk

Monk — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:54:19 -0800

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." Dear lord, what have I done? I'm this generation's Oppenheimer. Here's my attempt at redemption: Don't be like me, kids. Stay in school, keep off the pipe and NEVER use the marquee tag without the attribute loop="x" where x is less than ten. And preferably less than two.

By: wendellseviltwin

wendellseviltwin — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:03:42 -0800

Pike!

By: cheaily

cheaily — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:23:14 -0800

birdherder: we're busy ripping our eyes out.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:32:16 -0800

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By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:35:54 -0800

Let the flip book frenzy begin....

By: backOfYourMind

backOfYourMind — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:51:18 -0800

Eat
at
Joe's
It's the neon sign for the new millenium!

By: joeclark

joeclark — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 05:59:00 -0800

Why Moz supports blink, which indeed it does. You realize this comment page now fails Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 2 because it blinks?

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:50:33 -0800

i'm looking at this page in nn4 and nothing is moving, blinking or otherwise doing anything in the slightest out of the ordinary. you all think no-one uses nn4, but i've been sucked back through time to a place where html is still new and fortran 66 is the state of the art (ie i'm on a training course (the kind were they'd be best just listing all the things you can't do with their software) in the dark underworld of academic software support... help!)

By: tommasz

tommasz — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:52:22 -0800

IE has wierd CSS suuport and can't handle transparent PNG's and they implement the freakin' BLINK?

By: Joeforking

Joeforking — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:12:41 -0800

Calm down, tommasz, read the post and you will see it's a hack.

By: atholbrose

atholbrose — Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:17:04 -0800

I'm a little dissapointed that 'about:mozilla' no longer has the bit that ends with "and their tags shall blink until the end of days". Ah, well.