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		david_draco on April 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: textfiles.com A gif?! That would have been an opportunity to appropriately use the <blink> tag!

dgellow on April 27, 2020 | [–]

No modern browser support <blink> as a tag. Though you can reproduce the effect using CSS animations or javascript.

Some examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element#Implementation

schwartzworld on April 27, 2020 | | [–]

with WebComponents it's trivial to implement.

dangoor on April 27, 2020 | [–]

Alas(?), the blink tag is dead: https://caniuse.com/#search=blink

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