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Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag
AmiMoJo writes "It looks like Mozilla are finally going to remove the much hated blink tag from the Gecko rendering engine that powers Firefox. Work to remove support for the tag, which was always non-standard and is not supported by the most popular HTML layout engines WebKit and Blink (Chrome, Safari, Opera, Android), is progressing and should show up in a future version of the browser." A comment attached to the discussion of this (not completed) move points out the odd possibility that Google's new Blink rendering engine may feature the blink tag via CSS animation, which would be "hilarious/awesome."
So your hosts file troll will blinked to death!
Yeah, but I sleep at the shallow end
HTML5 allows blink functionality to be done via CSS3 animations, so they can never take the away from us!
How is Blink one of the most popular HTML layout engines?
Is being used yet?
The real Sig captains the Northwestern. This one captains
How ironic.
How are we supposed to now write Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment in only one line now?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Since CSS 1 and still in CSS 2.1, blink has been a recognized value of the text-decoration property. For accessibility, browsers should blink slowly so as not to trigger epilepsy events in susceptible individuals.
Now they must drop support for Comic Sans font and ugly stupid animated GIFs, then the transition from HTML 1.0 to 2.0 will be definitive.
In the blink of an eye all that old Geocities goodness will be wiped away from the eyes of the unsuspecting.
Since Blink will add the blink tab, Gecko will change the blink tab to a gecko tab.
In older versions when typing "about:mozilla" we can read:
"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days."
It's a sad day for web developer all around the world.
Thanks to politburo we still have marquee tag, and it works with WebKit too!
Fiddle is here http://jsfiddle.net/Danack/3pFUS/
@-webkit-keyframes blink { .blink {
from { opacity: 1.0; }
to { opacity: 0.0; }
0% { opacity: 1.0; }
50% { opacity: 0.0; }
100% { opacity: 1.0; }
}
-webkit-animation-name: blink;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
-webkit-animation-timing-function: steps(1);
-webkit-animation-duration: 1s;
}
"Free software as in beer, copy protection as in racket" - Telsa Gwynne
Hope it doesn't make my engshaming picture of Lou Montulli, the inventory, less valuable! :) http://engshaming.tumblr.com/image/30050495135
You've been able to disable the blink tag for ages anyway.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
How are we supposed to now write Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment in only one line now?
Another user mentioned CSS3 animations, and there exists sample CSS3 code for animating opacity.
Gif's that animate in less than a second are the modern blink tag and just as bloody annoying. I'm looking at you Gawker properties with your obsession with Gif's that animate in less than and are /very/ distracting. It's the same bloody problem in a different bloody package, and it's pretty bloody annoying. Thankfully I can block them when I see them with ad block plus...
But, what of marquee? Oh, for the days when one could *combine* blink and marquee... the web is dying.
Is this just a tribute or leftover from Firefox's previous life as Netscape Navigator? It seems they were the first browser to include blink.
Must be a slow news day.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
...rendering engine on the desktop. It was wishful thinking of the author to omit it. In fact, it's actually gaining market share at the moment.
It should read "It looks like Mozilla is..." Mozilla is a single corporation, and, thus, should have a single verb.
I've already ran into an otherwise reasonably sane-looking website that recreated blink with div and a bit of javascript.
And then there's animated gifs.
It all means that web"design" is not nearly often enough about the actual content.
I suppose I should be happy they aren't removing support for rendering tasteless backgrounds and crappy fonts... My ugly MySpace page is safe. For now.
Poor Clarice Ferguson! Her tag is gone.
Yeah this is *totally* news worth of the front page...
After 12 years, I'm out.
nested inside
. And I did it because the client's kid thought it was cool. I bet he's sorry to see it go, I know I am. ;-)
hide the menu bar and overlap the title bar with tabs
IE7 hid menus by default 2 years before Chrome existed.
But did either IE or Firefox take advantage of the space in the title bar before Chrome came out? Chrome's innovation was not only no menu bar (which IE had already done, as you point out) but also no title bar.
It looks like Mozilla are finally going to remove the much hated blink tag
I do not hate the blink tag. I hate the web developers.
Otherwise, I think the blink tag spurred the whole generation of web developers. Just look at all the so-called "Web 2.0" crap. Whether it is <blink> or jQuery's animations for every however tiny P.O.S., the end result is the same: unusable mess.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Man, that brings me back... I remember back in the mid 90s putting small sprite animated gifs of running characters into marquee tags so it would look like one character was chasing the other in forum sigs...
In one web application a form has to be completed within 10 minutes. I have a bit of javascript that puts a message the top of the screen when there are 90 seconds to go, and then makes it blink when there are only 30 seconds left. I don't pretend that it is pretty, but it can bring the user back to a task that they got part way through before being distracted.
Just because something can be used to create monstrosities does not mean that it should be banned. If that were the case, then ban .jpg on the grounds of what used to be found at goatse.cx
As part of my workflow, I have to induce seizures in people who approach my desk for help instead of submitting a request ticket. Without the blink tag, I will have to show them youtube clips of pokemon.
...I'm going to embed this Pokemon video on every page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon
Don't .
<blink></blink> and you're dead.
(I am so, so sorry)
Out of all the stupid user-hostile horseshit that has been implemented in browsers over the years, THIS is what makes someone think "gee, maybe this is really more trouble than it's worth?" The blink tag. Because clearly, the blink tag tracks the user, eats up tons of CPU time and bandwidth, loads ads from random servers, installs malware, and downloads kiddy porn.
Irony is when there's a black fly in your chardonnay. (A white one is not, however, ironic.)
What on earth does it mean to say that "work is progressing" to remove the tag? I've never looked at the code, but I would think that you could disable it with a simple change in one place: either remove the keyword from the parser so it is never recognized, or make it a no-op once it is. Why would getting rid of the tag be complicated enough to take a while and exhibit "progress"?
But only when used as a reference to an old movie:
http://www.prairiecon.com/nonexistantpage
Under window managers like DWM
This window manager appears to be ported only to X11, not to the native window system of Windows or the native window system of Mac OS X. And even in an environment that uses X11, the proper way I can see for to overlap the "title bar" would be for the application to specify through a hint that a non-rectangular client area is preferred, and then the window manager would tell the application where the window manager is placing decorations, so that the application can place its controls in the part of the client area not occupied by decorations. Do any window managers for X11 support behavior like this?
As the originator of the blink experiment I am happy to announce that after 19 years the time has finally come. We are officially stopping the blinking and will announce the result of the experiment after fully analyzing all the data. We thank all of you who have participated and especially those of you who have left comments and feedback. I don't want to spoil the final announcement, but early results point to a generally negative reception. (As well as several deaths) I am happy to announce that the popup window and marquee tag experiment will continue indefinitely. :lou
Simple, it's a form of animation, so blink as CSS make sense.
// enable default foreground background blink
div {
for example:
blink: true;
color: white;
background-color: black;
}
or set the color of blink as a list
div {
blink: orange, green, blue
}
or not only you set the list, but you give them transition proportion (blink speed, larger number = longer stay in that color)
div {
blink: orange, 1, green 2, blue: 1
}
or
blink: url(image1), 10, url(image2), 20
This is where you use images to blink.
Oh god, those things you did to GeoCities and MySpace... you owe us all an apology!
Tripod, mate, Tripod
And yes, I apologize.
Unreservedly.
But it was a long time ago. And besides, the bitch is dead.
***** OMG! How will conspiracy theory sites get your attention now? ****
Secret plans for incursion epinova alien energy device for thought control hidden in cosmic background static of FM broadcast, later in vertical blanking interval of analog television broadcast. Digital realm unaffected until development of Mosaic when secret browser code inserted to extend all color palettes +1 past base two boundaries to create an subvisible 'hyngry hyppo' color (the 17th, 257th, 65537th and 16777217th palette index) whose boundary is perceivable by the subconscious mind. Diagrams and simple directives cloaked in transparent interval of BLINK tag.
Mission for alien conquest of human race cancelled due to budget cuts and general unsuitability of pixelated thought processes of humans reared in the digital age. Technology passed by alien operatives secretly to the Gobymynt in exchange for a ride off the planet.
BLINK subsequently relegated to 'kitsch' status by unsuspecting nerd culture and its use in web design has been generally defecated.
Disclosure of BLINK mission a limited hang out to provide cover for epinova deployment into specification for CCSS (cascading cascading style sheets). Under this progressive regime (CSS, CCSS, CCCSS etc) style is expected to overtake content by 2015, with content completely defecated by 2020.
Covert intelligence insiders will also recall another alien epinova plot which peaked in the late 70s and early 80s, introduction of the hated and feared 'eiplady' device.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
So the Blink engine has no blink support?
/ The Arrow
"How lovely you are. So lovely in my straightjacket..." - Nny