Google search for “blink html”

http://www.google.com/#q=blink+html

by Tegran • 12 years ago

81 36 12 years ago

Greenisus• 12 years ago

I've wanted them to do this for years, and I know I'm not the first person to think of it. I wonder what made them decide to finally try out a user experience like this.

vinkelhake• 12 years ago

A developer had some spare time and decided to spend it on this, most likely.

sp332• 12 years ago

There are a bunch like this. Try "recursion", "the answer to life, the universe and everything", "tilt", "barrel roll", "kerning" (and "keming"), "google pacman", "zerg rush", or "conway's game of life".

zacinbusiness• 12 years ago

<marquee direction="up"><marquee direction="left"><blink>Look at me gooooo!!!!</blink></marquee></marquee>

jcutrell3• 12 years ago

Reference: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/axgKD

jcutrell3• 12 years ago

Unfortunately, no blink there, btw.

chrismorgan5• 12 years ago

Alas, people have forgotten the “data:” URL scheme.

data:text/html,<marquee%20direction=up><marquee%20direction=left><blink>Look%20at%20me%20gooooo!!!!</blink></marquee></marquee>

js22• 12 years ago

I feel slightly ill now. I once did this on my netscape binary:

    perl -pi -e 's/<blink>/\0/'

jrockway• 12 years ago

Did the binary still run after you did that? (I assume you actually replaced <blink> with 7 NULs?)

js22• 12 years ago

Oops, yes. It still ran sans blinking text. And I may have actually used emacs on the binary.

toddsiegel• 12 years ago

I am somewhat inspired to put an easter egg in my current project.

chrismorgan5• 12 years ago

I looked at it and wondered what was so special about it. Only when I read the comments did I suspect that I had been protected from some great evil by my browser.

You see, I use Firefox. Firefox removed <blink> support a while ago.

lelandbatey• 12 years ago

Interesting, because I am also using Firefox and I see the blink tags.

error54• 12 years ago

I see the blinking. Firefox 27.0.1 here

username• 12 years ago

Same here.

zackbrown• 12 years ago

It's implemented using a CSS animation that's decorating all of the <em> tags (which is what Google uses to wrap the matched search terms on the page and make them bold.)

This is why the word "html" also blinks on that page.

CSS animations are a more modern feature than <blink> tags, of course -- are you using an old version of Firefox?

ktsmith• 12 years ago

It doesn't use the blink tag it uses css animation:

animation: 1s steps(1, end) 0s normal none infinite blink;

userbinator• 12 years ago

If my filtering proxy caught <blink>, I'd get everything bolded instead. ( http://i61.tinypic.com/20i77kl.png )

ZoF4• 12 years ago

Heh, funny in this context because the only items on the page that are blinking are those which would normally be bold anyway as they were in the query.

ZoF4• 12 years ago

Honestly though; I bet you use chrome, didn't even bother to see if this worked in Firefox, and saw this as an opportunity to trash another browser based on your knowledge that <blink> support was deprecated.

I use Chrome, I like it better than Firefox, I also knew blink was deprecated in FF and had the same thought(would this work in firefox?) because I hadn't bothered to check if this was done using CSS or the <blink> tag. Although I didn't consider commenting on it.

Unless you're using a version of firefox older than 24 this is a pretty weird statement.

chrismorgan5• 12 years ago

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rather solid Mozilla/Firefox fan. I have Chromium installed for verification that things work with my web development, but that's all I use it for. I much prefer Firefox. It was only when I read the comments that had been made here that I remembered that Firefox had removed <blink> support and checked it in Chrome to see what had been intended.

I did not actually check at that point that it had used <blink> but assumed. This was an error.

As it happens, I run Nightly and for whatever reason the animation is not functioning there. I presume it's faulty browser detection on their part or the lack of a prefix-free version or some such thing.

el-mapache• 12 years ago

This is what happens when you run the internet

yeukhon• 12 years ago

This reminds me of the old days. http://www.liu-may.com/notebook/html/01marquee.htm

Fun and simple.

rkrkrk21• 12 years ago

Google search for marquee html and you shall see that the result count being displayed as a marqee

rradu• 12 years ago

Kind of awkward given that Chrome's new rendering engine (which has branched from Webkit) is called Blink

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blink-rendering-engine-for-...

LukeB_UK• 12 years ago

Aparrently the name is partly a reference to the tag:

Why did Google call the new rendering engine Blink? Upson told me it’s obviously supposed to signify how the focus here is on speed and simplicity. Browser developers, however, also tend to have a tendency to have a bit of fun with their names. Chrome, for example, is all about making the “chrome” disappear as much as possible and Blink, he told me, is meant to remind people of the good old (and annoying) blink tag the Netscape Navigator introduced in the 90s. [0]

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/google-forks-webkit-and-lau...

srajbr• 12 years ago

Why google does it? If its for publicity then why dont they list all of those.

Argorak• 12 years ago

Eastereggs are a simple way of getting sympathy (for the less geeky ones like 'tilt') and geek cred (for the geeky ones just like this). Probably, some engineer just built if for relaxation (or training with the code), so the cost of it is neglectible.

A huge part of the appeal of eastereggs is the discovery. Listing them would actually remove that.

It is basically the same as collections of jokes: the are just not as great as one of those jokes randomly being told to you one evening.

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