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Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.
by m0nty 15y ago
Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.
- RedwoodCity 15y agoMuch better than the Ad that swings into the middle of the browser screen tag
- Teapot 15y agoAnd 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, _<blink>o</blink>___ ____/ _| _ \___ | o o |
- alttag 15y agoSeveral years ago I visited a site that purported to have discovered the only acceptable use for the blink tag: Schrödinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead.
- EliAndrewC 15y agoI believe that this is the origin of that joke: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427
- endianswap 15y agoIf it were the worst thing we had to deal with nowadays, do you think there'd be a Chrome extension called NoBlink?
- mcpherrinm 15y agoIt's annoying enough that disabling blink is a built-in feature in Firefox
- guccimane 15y agoPerhaps, but those allow us to do things we otherwise couldn't. The blink tag just made annoying blinky text.