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Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. How is Blink the most popular? by thestudio_bob · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is Blink one of the most popular HTML layout engines?

    Is being used yet?

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  2. Re:no problem by AvitarX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But It's appropriate for it to be in CSS, It's a style of display that has to syntax. I wish they'd remove bold and italic too.

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