The accompanying release notes for Firefox 23.0 from Mozilla include the following line: Dropped blink effect from text-decoration: blink; and completely removed element. “Blink” is credited to web ...

When Mozilla released Firefox 23 on Tuesday, the updated browser put an unofficial end to one of the annoyances of the early Web—the “blink” tag. According to the release notes for the new browser, ...

The <blink>blink tag</blink> was popular in the 1990s when Web sites would show blinking text. Since then, it has fallen out of favor. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has ...

Lou Montulli was one of the first people to work on the Netscape web browser, which gave birth to many of the venerable (and likely deprecated) web standards some of us grew up with. And if not for ...

Sad tidings today for fans of the “blink” tag in Firefox. The latest version of Firefox has removed “blink” support. I know I join many people in mourning the demise of “blink” in Firefox. Well okay, ...

Some 20 years after it was first implemented in Netscape Navigator, one of the most reviled and widely abhorred pieces of web surfing history has finally been killed. With the release of Firefox 23, ...

The web I grew up with in the 90s is already mostly gone, both its look and its ethos, but the blink tag had somehow managed to hang on, despite the fact that its creation was something between a ...

A new Easter egg from the merry pranksters at Google performs an appropriate demonstration for anyone who searches on the word blink plus the acronym html. The nugget was flagged by Search Engine Land ...