steve kwan user experience designer

What the world needs now is <blink>, sweet <blink>

(April 17th, 2005 - 7:05PM)

Why doesn't anybody use blinking text anymore? Is it because a bunch of hyperactive idiots in the nineties abused the tag and now it's taboo? If <blink> was good enough to talk about back then, what's wrong with it now?

Many of you have your own websites, or websites that you're responsible for. I encourage everybody who is developing a website to make more liberal use of the <blink> tag. Why should we discriminate against <blink> because of its prior abuse?

Internet Explorer no longer supports the <blink> tag. If you're using other browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, you will see <blink> in all of its glory in this post. This isn't the first time Internet Explorer has gone against the grain and created problems for Web developers. Let's make <blink> a commonplace tag again. Let's encourage Microsoft to change its ways.

I also wanted to recommend the use of the <marquee> tag, but Firefox seems to be misbehaving when I use it. One battle at a time.