Usage
The blink element is non-standard, and as such there is no authoritative specification of its syntax or semantics. While Bert Bos of the World Wide Web Consortium has produced a Document Type Definition that includes syntax for the blink element (defining it as a phrase element on a par with elements for emphasis and citations), the comments in the DTD explain that it is intended as a joke.
Syntax of the blink element type is identical to such standard HTML inline elements as span. For example: .
The rate of blinking is browser-specific. In Mozilla Firefox the text alternates between being visible for three quarters of a second and being invisible for one quarter of a second.
The blink element type was first invented for Netscape Navigator and is still supported in its descendants, such as Mozilla Firefox (except for the Netscape 6 and early Mozilla suite browsers). It is also supported by the Opera Internet Browser. Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari/WebKit do not support it, even in its CSS incarnation.
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