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Comment by dchest | Hacker News Reader

Haha, the note about removing <blink> tag is enclosed in <blink></blink>.

Geocities are gone. <blink> is gone.

Pretty soon, <marquee> will be gone too. At least animated gifs are still stronger than ever.

Is there any good reason for removing the distinctive behavior of an element that so many older websites use, even if it is considered a design faux pas? History should not be destroyed.

I agree that history should not be destroyed and in sites that have old pages with the blink tag it won't be. But I think its fine for the browser makers to remove old cruft. Especially in this case where the behavior can easily be replicated in Javascript.

or css (shamelessly stolen from http://www.jwz.org/jwz.css):

  @keyframes         blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}
  @-webkit-keyframes blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}
  @-moz-keyframes    blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}
  @-ms-keyframes     blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}
  @-o-keyframes      blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}

  blink {
    text-decoration:   inherit;
    animation:         blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
    -webkit-animation: blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
    -moz-animation:    blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
    -ms-animation:     blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
    -o-animation:      blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
  }

Non-standard element.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

It's now gone from every browser I think, that was a funny legacy feature I wish they would have left in just for fun.

Which apparently does not work in IE10 & Chrome either.

I guess you can still implement it easily in JS though.

Nice find! I wonder what prompted to look at the code there...

If you view the page with Firefox version <= 22, that paragraph is blinking, very easy to notice :-) (annoyingly easy!)

Indeed, that's how I noticed it.

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