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[michaelty]

The blink tag was a nice touch.

[roadnottaken → michaelty]

Hmm... no blinking in Chrome. I think I'm happy about that "feature"...

[InclinedPlane → michaelty]

IE and Chrome don't support blink, only Firefox does. A legacy of the Netscape heritage I'd imagine, since blink is a Netscape proprietary HTML addition.

[robin_reala → InclinedPlane]

Gecko also supports text-decoration:blink if you’re a fan of semantic markup and keeping presentation in the presentation layer.

Personally, I’m waiting for “Bug 173540 - make text-decoration:blink pulse instead of blink” to be fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173540

[LiveTheDream → InclinedPlane]

Fun trivia: the blink tag actually started as a joke[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

[taylorbuley → michaelty]

Personally I think a <marquee> would have also sufficed.

[elliottcarlson → taylorbuley]

OT: My first website back in the mid-90's had both a <blink> and <marquee> tag in it... so so sad...

[wladimir → elliottcarlson]

Mine also had a java applet with a lame animated menu! Beat that :)

[Luyt → wladimir]

My website featured a permanent 'Under Construction' graphic.

[brk → Luyt]

My website was actually a gopher:// site.

[chopsueyar → brk]

I had a BBS.

[linker3000 → chopsueyar]

I actually went out, met and talked to other people.

[rbanffy → linker3000]

Luxury! In my time, there weren't other people to talk to. ;-)

[wladimir → linker3000]

It can't get more old-school than that, you win :)

[chopsueyar → linker3000]

Like at an internet cafe or someplace with free wifi?