I can't believe W3 org uses BLINK!

ugh....

[vkaryl]

Was sent to Web Style Sheets [w3.org] home page from a post on another board, only to discover they are using a blinking tag in the second paragraph under What Are Style Sheets! HOW IRRITATING.

Thought everybody had quit with that stuff some while back; guess I was wrong (not an unusual state for me, after all....)

[iamlost]

W3C is (I think) using the "Netscape" HTML <blink> tag as a techie illustration:

By attaching style sheets to structured documents on the Web (e.g. HTML), authors and readers can influence the presentation of documents without sacrificing device-independence or adding new HTML tags.

The emphasised (my bold, their blink) phrase is blinking because of an added "new" proprietary tag - <blink> - which is unnecessary if you use CSS and appropriate text-decoration styling.

CSS has always (both 1 and 2) offered blink as a possible value for text-decoration, along with none, underline, overline, and line-through.

Whether "blinking" is trashy or garish or just often inappropriately over used (at least in the past) is a matter for individual webmasters (and their trashy, garish, inappropriate design loving clients).

It took me several minutes to come to the above conclusion when I first shuddered at the blinking thing some months ago. Almost fatal it was ...

[vkaryl]

Heh - in other words, calm down, huh?

It just hit me the wrong way....

[createErrorMsg]

W3C is (I think) using the "Netscape" HTML <blink> tag as a techie illustration

iamlost, it appears you're right, but doesn't this seem just a tad too witty for the W3C? I mean, thus far, they're not exactly reknowned for their literary style, know what I mean?

[vkaryl]

"witty". Hmm. Maybe I looked at this from the wrong direction? Maybe this was a huge dig at the tasteless?

Never know, will we - unless one amongst us knows one amongst them "up close and personal" - and I don't.... how 'bout you guys?