Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag 138
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."
no problem (Score:5, Informative)
HTML5 allows blink functionality to be done via CSS3 animations, so they can never take the away from us!
Use CSS (Score:4, Informative)
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.
So, "the end of days" ? (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."
Sample code for animating opacity (Score:4, Informative)
How are we supposed to now write Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment in only one line now?
Another user mentioned CSS3 animations [slashdot.org], and there exists sample CSS3 code for animating opacity [john-smith.me].
Re:Use CSS (Score:4, Informative)
It is an optional part of CSS, and not supported by WebKit or Blink.