alt Hacker NewsMany years ago, I decided to reinvent the `blink` tag, because the monsters who make browsers removed support for it.
I didn't know you could just make up tags, but I figured I'd give it a shot, and with a bit of jquery glue and playing with visibility settings, I was able to fix browsers and bring back the glorious blinking. I was surprised you could just do that; I would have assumed that the types of tags are final.
I thought about open sourcing it, but it was seriously like ten lines of code and I suspect that there are dozens of things that did the same thing I did.
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I think you can do it fully in CSS these days! https://www.w3docs.com/tools/code-editor/13719
I modified `.blink` to `blink` so it will target the tag instead of the class and it seemed to work
Talking about this, I am still sad Flash got removed from the web.
Nothing to replace it with to afaik.
I for one am glad that blink is no longer a thing, it's certainly behavior that should require more thought than a simple html element can provide.
> because the monsters who make browsers removed support for it
Most browsers never implemented it in the first place. Safari, Chrome, IE and Edge never had it. In terms of current browser names, it was only Firefox and Opera that ever had it, until 2013.