The blink tag was popular in the 1990s when Web sites would show blinking text. Since then, it has fallen out of favor. Watch out, Web site owners: all of that blinking might need to go away soon.

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...