Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox

Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by Terretta on Thursday August 08, 2013 @09:50PM (#6183219)

Thing is, back in the day, blink did have its uses...

    <blink><font color="red">"If you click continue, 
    your database will be irretrievably deleted, your 
    children shipped off to coal mines, and your tea 
    served lukewarm."</font></blink>

Even corporate intranets loved it: http://forums.asp.net/post/433145.aspx

It worked!

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by bradgessler on Friday August 09, 2013 @02:43AM (#6184087)

Fear not! I brought blink back at http://terribleideas.neocities.org/ (and a bunch of other really terrible tags, like <shudder/>).

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by DanBC on Friday August 09, 2013 @06:02AM (#6184701)

Animated HUGE <hr> gifs would be cool too.

EDIT: And spinning animated bullet-points.

Did "Hot Dog Stand" have any legitimate use? How did it end up being delivered? EDIT: Apparently, useful for monochrome displays and some forms of colourblindness, according to a comment here (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/a-tribute-to-the-wi...)

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by endgame on Friday August 09, 2013 @08:39AM (#6185219)

Am I the only one who liked the Program Manager and the windows-minimise-to-the-desktop behaviour of win3.x? It seems like every other bizarre idea has been implemented in a window manager somewhere except that one. Or am I wrong?

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by themstheones on Friday August 09, 2013 @10:19AM (#6185782)

I saw something quite similar to minimize to desktop in one of those super light linux WMs that lack a task bar.

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by broken_symlink on Friday August 09, 2013 @10:55AM (#6186017)

ROX-Filer can do that.

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by AlexanderDhoore on Friday August 09, 2013 @03:08AM (#6184148)

Great stuff! I love a good satire. It's amazing what you can do with css there days. Especially <sparkle> is impressive. I also love that you used neocities. Who doesn't miss the 90s, right?

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by ehsanu1 on Friday August 09, 2013 @05:03AM (#6184485)

<sparkle> is implemented with just an animated gif background. Still, great stuff!

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by erre on Friday August 09, 2013 @05:56AM (#6184682)

Satire?

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by gngeal on Friday August 09, 2013 @08:20AM (#6185136)

Amazing! This is hands down this year's most important development in the Web technologies field!

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by LanceH on Friday August 09, 2013 @11:55AM (#6186378)

Is it to early to call this Web4.0?

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by throwawayg99 on Friday August 09, 2013 @12:42PM (#6186665)

You forgot marquee!

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by derleth on Friday August 09, 2013 @09:19AM (#6185383)

Do you really not like epileptics?

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by workbench on Friday August 09, 2013 @06:19AM (#6184749)

love how you're hosting this on neocities, seems apt

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by jes5199 on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:10PM (#6183526)

it's actually hard to read blinking text - it's missing from the screen half the time!

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by kh_hk on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:49PM (#6183643)

It's actually blinking just 1/4 of the time

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Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox by kenbellows on Friday August 09, 2013 @08:46AM (#6185246)

It should be off only 1/4 of the time, but IIRC it was often not implemented correctly, and it would sometimes be 2-on,2-off instead of 3-on,1-off.

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