Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 9, 2013 @02:47AM from the you'll-notice-we-eschew-it dept.

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."

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no problem by iggymanz · 2013-04-09 02:52 · Score: 5, Informative

HTML5 allows blink functionality to be done via CSS3 animations, so they can never take the away from us!
So, "the end of days" ? by fire4ever · 2013-04-09 03:06 · Score: 5, Informative

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."