On: Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Fire...

[brudgers]

This isn't progress.

It's just change.

Blink never hurt anyone.

[pjscott → brudgers]

Have you forgotten how annoying the web used to be?

[brudgers → pjscott]

The original form of my comment was:

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  (But for the sake of ideology.)

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As demonstrated by the argument that blink deserves elimination because of the past, the big rationale is punishment - premised upon anthropomorphizing an HTML tag.

What I remember about the days of blink is fucking amazing the web was. The driving ideal was connecting everything to everything else - not creating gated communities of cul-de-sacs. What was far more annoying than blink was auto-playing music.

Now in fairness, if the web has ceased to be a source of annoyance since, I must not have noticed. Was there a memo?

[hnha → pjscott]

compared to today's web (when used without an ad-blocker)? there are huge moving, sliding, wiggling, popping animations everywhere.

[derleth → brudgers]

Blink can cause epileptic seizures.

[TheZenPsycho → derleth]

if you read the comments thread on jwz's site there's a discussion that concludes that blink doesn't blink fast enough to cause seizures- There's specific MIL specs they cite.