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[Michael Morris]

In the olden days of the internet there existed the [blink]<blink>[/blink] tag. It made things [blink]blink.[/blink] Some folk made [blink]entire blinking pages[/blink] with this tag.

These days [blink]blink[/blink] is a function of CSS, so it's not as easily accessed and most folks can't find it to use it. But I've made a [blink]blinking bbcode[/blink]. Please enjoy, but don't abuse.

 

[Psionicist]

... And if you don't like it, just disable the blink-tag in Firefox.

1) Goto about:config (thats about colon config, the forum adds an underscore I think)
2) Change browser.blink_allowed to false.

 

[DaveStebbins]

Thanks Psionicist! That was the best advice I've had today.

 

[Gez]

[blink]Testing, because I'm too lazy to quote MM's post to see the actual tag.[/blink]

Spoiler

And [blink]testing something else[/blink] because I'm kinda pervert that way.

Bwahahah! Blinking spoilers! They work!

 

[Piratecat]

Perhaps not for long; now that we know this can be done (yay, MM!) we may end up disabling it except in rare circumstances. It's one of those tags that people often find annoying instead of cool. I'm psyched that this is a possibility, though, because I thought it was something we didn't have a choice about.

If it disappears again, that's why.

 

[Michael Morris]

I was feeling kinda silly.

Anyway, I've since found that IE won't support that tag. I'm not too keen on making a tag that's essentially 'annoy the firefox users,' so out she goes.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Blinking is teh demon spawn!

 

[Gez]

Dang, it was fun while it lasted.

Spoiler

I like the way the spoiler tag works, now. Nifty.

 

[der_kluge]

I agree with Olgar. There's a reason why nothing blinks on the internet anymore. Well, almost nothing.

All those people that did that were drawn and quartered.

 

[Chacal]

I agree with Olgar. There's a reason why nothing blinks on the internet anymore. Well, almost nothing.

All those people that did that were drawn and quartered.

Well there're still animated gifs, flash animations and stupid javascript tricks, but they can be turned out


Chacal