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<marquee direction="up"><marquee direction="left"><blink>Look at me gooooo!!!!</blink></marquee></marquee>

Reference: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/axgKD

Unfortunately, no blink there, btw.

there is for me :)

Alas, people have forgotten the “data:” URL scheme.

data:text/html,<marquee%20direction=up><marquee%20direction=left><blink>Look%20at%20me%20gooooo!!!!</blink></marquee></marquee>

"data:" is also disabled by default in Firefox.

You mean hyperlinks to data: URLs? At least that's not a problem here, as HN doesn't linkify them anyway, so you'll already have to open the URL manually.

No, I meant manually opening data: URLs is disabled. It's a social engineering worry.

Haven't forgotten it. Just not using it cause it's more difficult. No need to do something more difficult if I don't have to, right?

I feel slightly ill now. I once did this on my netscape binary:

    perl -pi -e 's/<blink>/\0/'

Did the binary still run after you did that? (I assume you actually replaced <blink> with 7 NULs?)

Oops, yes. It still ran sans blinking text. And I may have actually used emacs on the binary.

Kind of awkward given that Chrome's new rendering engine (which has branched from Webkit) is called Blink

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blink-rendering-engine-for-...

Aparrently the name is partly a reference to the tag:

>Why did Google call the new rendering engine Blink? Upson told me it’s obviously supposed to signify how the focus here is on speed and simplicity. Browser developers, however, also tend to have a tendency to have a bit of fun with their names. Chrome, for example, is all about making the “chrome” disappear as much as possible and Blink, he told me, is meant to remind people of the good old (and annoying) blink tag the Netscape Navigator introduced in the 90s. [0]

[0]: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/google-forks-webkit-and-lau...

Google search for marquee html and you shall see that the result count being displayed as a marqee

I looked at it and wondered what was so special about it. Only when I read the comments did I suspect that I had been protected from some great evil by my browser.

You see, I use Firefox. Firefox removed <blink> support a while ago.

Interesting, because I am also using Firefox and I see the blink tags.

I see the blinking. Firefox 27.0.1 here

Same here.

It's implemented using a CSS animation that's decorating all of the <em> tags (which is what Google uses to wrap the matched search terms on the page and make them bold.)

This is why the word "html" also blinks on that page.

CSS animations are a more modern feature than <blink> tags, of course -- are you using an old version of Firefox?

It doesn't use the blink tag it uses css animation:

animation: 1s steps(1, end) 0s normal none infinite blink;

If my filtering proxy caught <blink>, I'd get everything bolded instead. ( http://i61.tinypic.com/20i77kl.png )

Heh, funny in this context because the only items on the page that are blinking are those which would normally be bold anyway as they were in the query.

Honestly though; I bet you use chrome, didn't even bother to see if this worked in Firefox, and saw this as an opportunity to trash another browser based on your knowledge that <blink> support was deprecated.

I use Chrome, I like it better than Firefox, I also knew blink was deprecated in FF and had the same thought(would this work in firefox?) because I hadn't bothered to check if this was done using CSS or the <blink> tag. Although I didn't consider commenting on it.

Unless you're using a version of firefox older than 24 this is a pretty weird statement.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rather solid Mozilla/Firefox fan. I have Chromium installed for verification that things work with my web development, but that's all I use it for. I much prefer Firefox. It was only when I read the comments that had been made here that I remembered that Firefox had removed <blink> support and checked it in Chrome to see what had been intended.

I did not actually check at that point that it had used <blink> but assumed. This was an error.

As it happens, I run Nightly and for whatever reason the animation is not functioning there. I presume it's faulty browser detection on their part or the lack of a prefix-free version or some such thing.

Good to hear.

Sorry for being a dick; it just seemed like you were trying to make an anti-FF statement based on prior knowledge and nothing else, glad to hear it was just their nightly build not functioning properly.

For what it's worth, I prefer FF as a company, but I like Chrome for syncing tabs and the developer tools.

CSS animations work fine in Nightly. I'll say with certainty 0.95 that it'll be Google's fault.

As a corollary, the AdWords management interface detects Nightly as an old browser rather than a very new browser.

Thinking about it I agree it does seem infinitely more likely to be something on Google's end.

I've wanted them to do this for years, and I know I'm not the first person to think of it. I wonder what made them decide to finally try out a user experience like this.

A developer had some spare time and decided to spend it on this, most likely.

There are a bunch like this. Try "recursion", "the answer to life, the universe and everything", "tilt", "barrel roll", "kerning" (and "keming"), "google pacman", "zerg rush", or "conway's game of life".

This reminds me of the old days. http://www.liu-may.com/notebook/html/01marquee.htm

Fun and simple.

I am somewhat inspired to put an easter egg in my current project.

Why google does it? If its for publicity then why dont they list all of those.

Eastereggs are a simple way of getting sympathy (for the less geeky ones like 'tilt') and geek cred (for the geeky ones just like this). Probably, some engineer just built if for relaxation (or training with the code), so the cost of it is neglectible.

A huge part of the appeal of eastereggs is the discovery. Listing them would actually remove that.

It is basically the same as collections of jokes: the are just not as great as one of those jokes randomly being told to you one evening.

This is what happens when you run the internet

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