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not opposed to having an animated image rather than the code, but I don't think that IE not supporting it is a reason to exclude anything. Also, I think it's unreasonable to expect a user to paste the code into a page, especially because the standard code doesn't work in Knowledge (XXG) anyway. If a small bit of flashing text is so obtrusive people don't want it on the page, we could add a hide/show button to it.
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It seems that you have been continually removing examples and illustrations from this article for thirteen years, and during this time you have not offered any rationale for the removal based on consensus, policy, guidelines or evidence. Please do not remove it again, unless you can come up with some
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The lead paragraph says that the blink tag is not supported by Internet Explorer, and the Usage section says it is supported by Internet Explorer. I don't have any Windows computers nearby to test on (and my Windows XP VM is quite dead at the moment), can someone verify IE support (perhaps it was
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Yes- I was just thinking we need an example here. If some can't see it blink, it won't matter in fact it will illustrate the article's statement that it doesn't do it in Internet Explorer. A lot more people use firefox now than in the past. As to intruding itself on the reader, it's not porn or
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Just because some browsers don't support images (or certain types of images) doesn't mean we remove images from pages. I realize that category is the minority, but the basic principle still stands. It doesn't detriment the majority of users to have an example, and it can benefit the remainder. I'm
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Specifically, it isn't supported by Internet Explorer, which is still the most common browser. If an example of what blinking text looks like is really required it should be done with an image, but adding blinking content to pages is still a really bad idea. The article contains an example of the
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So. I keep making these little sub-headings on the appropriate page, nobody but me puts text under them when they re-add the blinking seizure trigger, and I'm the one who gets threatened with being blocked. Can we at least have a discussion before the block hammer comes
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You are bothering me over an eight-year-old talk page message that nobody responded to at the time. If you want to have a discussion, great. I've been trying to discuss this for years, as you can see, but if you just want to use policy to bother me I don't have the
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This is absurd. People keep re-adding the seizure trigger without even attempting to discuss it here, and everyone's expected to be OK with triggering seizures in people? The browser makers removed the damned tag for a
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ever had a seizure caused by the blink tag? Browser makers removed the blink tag because it was not being used anymore, it had user experience issues and its use was criticized by most web designers.
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Our own sources say that the image could cause seizures, so I've removed it. The fact it's incorrect is just another reason it never should have been in the article in the first place. —
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Perhaps link to an example somewhere in this article, so it is not forced upon users? An image can be linked by putting colon after the left two brackets - like ] produces
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tag is showing in the image, so the either the image is wrong or the caption is wrong. I know it is intended to be a joke, but I think Knowledge (XXG) should be correct.
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The article says Apple's Safari supports the blink tag, but a test on Safari 6.0 (7536.25) on Mac OS X 10.7.4 does not blink. Same test HTML blinks in Firefox 12.0.
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The example doesn't blink (anymore?) in Chrome because many browser vendors cancelled the support for it. Should be replaced by a GIF that shows, what <BLINK: -->
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taken into account in Knowledge (XXG) — it's why all images uploaded as SVG are converted to PNG for display in articles; for example, all of the images in the
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are actually all PNG files generated from the original uploaded SVG. I think perhaps this blinking text issue should be brought up on the talk page for
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It is far more important than any Knowledge (XXG) rules, and it is impossible to justify re-adding it without at least discussing it on the talk page.
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after the link to keep me from modifying it, if I keep adding bad data, but formatting bugs should be reported instead. Alternatively, you can add
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source code needed to produce blinking text, and if a reader really needs to see it in action they can paste it into a page to try it out. —
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Consensus is meaningless when an element of the page could hurt someone. We're not going to engage in OR or synthesis on this one.—
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Technically, I suppose, but it's probably more famous (infamous) as simply the "blink tag." Move and leave redirect?--
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added or removed from a specific version? Use something like IE Collection on XP to test?) and correct the article?
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has added an example straight to the page. Did I miss something or did he just not read our ongoing conversation?
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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
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Sigh I would have made one but I don't think I'm allowed- is it really banned for one word, I wanted to use
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to keep me off the page altogether, but should be used as a last resort. I made the following changes:
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I keep removing the blinking text for the simple reason that our own cites say it can cause seizures.
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OK, so we're going to risk seizures. We can at least give the epileptics a fighting chance here.—
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before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template
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anything lol, I will make an understated one, and try and make it as unannoying as possible.
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evidence that it is causing people to have seizures. I find your claim extremely unlikely
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So it doesn't cause seizures except when it does? No. Sorry. Not going in the article.—
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If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with
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and no, one word can't cause seizures lol:) I'm going to place a link somewhere here.
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Another day, another complete lack of discussion before re-adding, another removal.
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The caption of the image on the page says "An illustration of the <blink: -->
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An entry about the blink tag, yet no examples of it? Kind of funny, eh? --
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for correct terminology and in line with the naming of articles such as
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Since leaving this message, you removed it an additional two times ("
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That is an issue which goes over and above our notions of consensus.
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This article should more properly be called "Blink element type".
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Most implementations of the blink tag only flash it between 1-2
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When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the
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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes/).--
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I have just added archive links to one external link on
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Ah, the joys of collaboration. A much better idea than
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