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Today (please don't kill me) I used a <blink> tag.
It was just a test: I needed some text to put into some code to check that it was correctly serving HTML, so I sent Hello world! wrapped in a <blink> tag.
I know that what I did was wrong and I promise not to do it again.
I was rather surprised, though, to discover that Firefox 34 didn't actually blink the text! Is this to be expected? Do Chrome and IE also refuse to be so crass? Is it, technically speaking, a failure to implement the HTML specification?
Obviously I would never use <blink> tags in real code. But I do remember that they blew my tiny mind back in the 1990s when they first appeared, and I feel like I've lost part of my adolescence, which is a little painful even when you know it's a bad part of your adolescence that's gone.
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The <blink> HTML element is a non-standard element which causes the enclosed text to flash slowly. Warning: Do not use this element as it is obsolete and is bad design practice.
Despite its initial popularity among home users in the 1990s, it fell out of favor due to its overuse and the difficulty it presents in reading. Lou Montulli, often credited as the inventor of the blink element, claims he only suggested the idea, without writing any actual code.
The HTML <blink> tag is used to create a blinking text that flashes slowly.
It isn't supported in firefox since 23.0, none of the other browsers support it any more (or never have)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/blink
From above source:
Deprecated
This feature has been removed from the Web standards. Though some browsers may still support it, it is in the process of being dropped. Do not use it in old or new projects. Pages or Web apps using it may break at any time.
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