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Despite the element being initially popular amongst Personal Webpages , it has since fallen into disfavor due to its overuse and the difficulty it presents in Reading . The tag achieved notoriety for being extremely user-unfriendly and epitomized many websites when the Internet first received limited popularity amongst home users. The Inventor of the blink tag, Lou Montulli , has said repeatedly in interviews that he considers "the blink tag to be the worst thing I've ever done for the Internet". USAGE SYNTAX Usage of the blink element type is identical to such HTML standard inline element types as bold ( <b></b>), underline (<u></u>), or Italics (<i></i>), with the opening tag preceding the text the user wishes to blink, and the closing tag following.In a text-based HTML editor, proper usage of the blink element type would be as so: : This text will appear to blink in compatible browsers The equivalent CSS style to the blink element is ''text-decoration: blink''. Therefore, to achieve the same effect and stay compliant with the HTML standard, one must use The rate of blinking is implementation-defined and cannot be specified in the page. COMPLIANCE The blink element type was first invented for Netscape Navigator and is still supported in its descendants, such as Mozilla Firefox . It is also supported by the Opera Internet Browser . Most other browsers, such as Microsoft 's Internet Explorer , do not support it, even in its CSS incarnation. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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