There are people still using browsers that render blink tags? posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:46 PM on June 25, 2004
Firefox on XP over here. Blink tag is indeed rendering. posted by Ryvar at 9:47 PM on June 25, 2004
Firefox 0.9 on Win2000 still rendering, too... posted by dhoyt at 9:50 PM on June 25, 2004
FWIW - the tag may be hated above all others, but I worked with the guy who invented the damn thing, and he's wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice at a very young age, respected as a visionary (he's best known for thinking up the cookie) and one good-looking bastard to boot.
/chews crust of ordinary life posted by scarabic at 10:02 PM on June 25, 2004
Actually blink was carried over into the CSS model (instead of dying a much-deserved death). I think it doesn't work on IE. It CAN be useful in a situation where you have an old CSS with legacy styles and you want to test and see which ones aren't used anymore, but that's about the only use I've ever had for the damn thing. posted by clevershark at 10:23 PM on June 25, 2004
...respected as a visionary (he's best known for thinking up the cookie) and one good-looking bastard to boot.
These "proprietary elements" are sooooo unimaginative.
I want a "Go fuck yourself" element which - when the user's computer sound is on - will shout out, in a high pitched cartoon character shrill tone, "Go fuck yourself!".
Classic, dhoyt! I'd never seen that one. I've never hit the Google image search looking for pix o' Lou before, but this mullet shot is worth a peek, too.
Seems privoxy just quietly filters out the marquee and blink tags. One of those things that does its job so nicely I had pretty much forgotten I'd set it up. Was scratching my head for a bit wondering if maybe firefox for windows was cursed with blink but the linux verion had been spared. But nay. posted by adamt at 4:23 AM on June 26, 2004
I always hated blink, with a hatred that surpasseth all understanding. But then, mercifully, it seemed to disappear ... thanks for bringing back the memories, guys :) posted by kaemaril at 4:55 AM on June 26, 2004
And, of course, it's lethal [uuurggh ... clutches heart] posted by raygirvan at 5:22 AM on June 26, 2004
dg - goddamn. Thanks for the trick.
Makes me sad I didn't know how to do that during my "politically charged wall of links" Metafilter phase.
I could have made the links flash on and off like the light show from the spaceship in "Close Encounters of The Third Kind".
Seriously though - while we're on the subject of cheesy tricks (though yours was much better than "cheesy") - isn't there some way I could make a tiny little (2-3 sec) audio clip play when somebody mouses over a link?
Farts, shrieks, low voices intoning "It's hopeless. I'll just crawl up my ass and die!", and so on....... posted by troutfishing at 6:03 AM on June 26, 2004
man, that brings me back to earlier days of the web. And even back then it was considered bad design :) posted by andryeevna at 6:42 AM on June 26, 2004
Somewhere, the John Waters of web design is reading this thread and coming up with his Pink Flamingoes. posted by condour75 at 6:58 AM on June 26, 2004
next up on the block: IMPACT. posted by mcsweetie at 7:06 AM on June 26, 2004
Here I was hoping that Safari only renders Marquee until it's on the screen and it doesn't do blink at all . . . apparently that's only late at night, when my computer knows I can't handle it.
(For whatever reason, this page is rendering much better than it did last night.) posted by thecaddy at 12:12 PM on June 26, 2004
If you could control the speed of blink and "layer" or alternate color effects, one could create a much subtler fade/glow effect without the use of plugins or animated .gifs. posted by infowar at 9:47 PM on June 26, 2004
I knew this thread would look like this, and I was not disappointed. dg wins, I think, but it was a close one. posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:48 AM on June 27, 2004
Cool, I like it when I win by being the worst at something. posted by dg at 4:47 AM on June 27, 2004
I swear, them rabbits are hypnotizing me. posted by dabitch at 3:16 PM on June 27, 2004
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