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You can save at least 40% by externalizing the CSS (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 weeks ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 113 points 2 weeks ago

<marquee>suck on these tokens</marquee>

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 82 points 2 weeks ago

The day the blink tag was removed from the rendering engine was the day we lost our way.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

The story behind the blink tag is so ridiculous.

At some point in the evening I mentioned that it was sad that Lynx was not going to be able to display many of the HTML extensions that we were proposing, I also pointed out that the only text style that Lynx could exploit given its environment was blinking text. We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. ... Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office only to find what else but, blinking text. It was on the screen blinking in all its glory, and in the browser. How could this be, you might ask? It turns out that one of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight. He was still there in the morning and quite proud of it.

[-] Arigion@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

Oh come on. Nobody used it since we have animated gifs as replacement.

[-] Wfh@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 weeks ago

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Geocities pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/blink_element

While initially popular, became much maligned because of overuse; many people found it annoying. More importantly, it degrades readability and can be particularly problematic for users with visual impairments or cognitive disorders such as epilepsy or ADHD. It can be disorienting or, in the worst cases, even trigger seizures.

tbf it's a valid reason to drop its support

[-] db2@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

[-] Arigion@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Nope. That element never existed. It was text

Besides a selfclosing would make no sense.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Besides a selfclosing would make no sense.

My own eyeballs do it all the time. Checkmate, fish!

[-] Arigion@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Well done, pigeon! You won! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scnr:

Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.