| ▲ | chrismorgan 17 hours ago |
| > 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. |
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| ▲ | tombert 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Huh, I would have sworn that Internet Explorer had the blink tag at one point, but I think my parents had Netscape and then Mozilla pretty early so maybe that's what I'm confusing it with. Regardless, I stand by my comment. Monsters! I want my browser to be obnoxious. |
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| ▲ | chrismorgan 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Never mind, Microsoft got you with <marquee>. In theory, in 1996 Netscape and Microsoft agreed to kill <blink> and <marquee> <https://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html>, but although they were kept out of the spec, neither removed its implementation, and then IE dominated the browser market, and <marquee> became popular enough that the remaining parties were bullied into shipping it (Netscape in 2002, Presto in 2003, no idea about the KHTML/WebKit timeline), and so ultimately it was put into the HTML Standard. | | |
| ▲ | Sesse__ 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | KHTML added <marquee> support in October 2003 (commit 7bcdd98aa in the Chromium repository). | | |
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| ▲ | Tistron 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think I remember reading articles about how to implement blink in IE using behaviors, some IE only thing that didn't take hold(?), Maybe this was around IE5. |
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| ▲ | vbezhenar 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| IE was holding back the progress even before Chrome and Safari were a thing. |
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| ▲ | delaminator 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | > IE was holding back the progress Oh those times. IE accepted <table><tr><td><tr></table> whereas Nestscape demanded <table><tr><td></td></tr></table> and would just not render anything else - just blank grey Humans loved it, when they had to type all this by hand, because missing /td would not kill your page. Permissiveness won out. I also remember the day JavaScript hit the net. and all those "chat rooms" that did <meta refresh> to look live suddenly had no defence against this <script>document.write('http://twistys.com/folder/porn.jpg')</script> or alert bombs | | |
| ▲ | chrismorgan 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh those times. <script>document.createElement("table").appendChild(document.createElement("table"))</script> would crash IE, and some similar stupidities could even cause a BSOD as late as Windows 98. (I think that was one such incantation, but if it wasn’t quite that it was close.) |
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