End of an era as Firefox bins "blink" tag

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 7, 2013 10:46 AM EDT
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The "blink"* element, a feature of early web browsers that made text blink on and off, has been banished in the latest version of Firefox. The element had already been removed from Internet Explorer, was never implemented in Chrome and was ignored by most browser-makers because it never made it into a W3C HTML spec. The W3C even went so far as to add a Blink-killing requirement to its web accessibility guidelines.

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Truly the end of an era Bob_Robertson 5 1,035 Aug 8, 2013 6:47 PM

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