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[Leo Mauler]

--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
 
> On Tuesday 09 September 2008 14:12:38 Nathan Cerny
> wrote:
>
> > I think he meant the <blink> </blink>
> > tags
> > :)
> 
> Those have never been part of HTML either.
 
While not officially a part of the official HTML tag set, the <blink> tag is, ironically, still supported by the browser which came up with the <blink> tag, Netscape Navigator.  It is also supported by Netscape Navigator's open-source GPLed children, Mozilla and Firefox, and also by the proprietary Opera web browser.
 
The closed-source proprietary Internet Explorer browser does not support the <blink> tag, possibly one of the few good decisions ever made by Microsoft.
 
Ironically, blinking text *has* been a part of HTML since 1996, entirely thanks to the influence of the non-standard <blink> tag, by the creation of a "blink" value for "text-decoration" within CSS1.

Fortunately, while browsers have to recognize the value of "blink" for "text-decoration", they aren't required to actually make the text blink.  Unfortunately, all browsers which spawned from Netscape Navigator *do* blink the text for a "text-decoration: blink" CSS command.