Firefox 23 finally kills the blink tag, removes ability to turn off JavaScript, introduces new logo
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, the
<blink> HTML tag is no longer supported by any major browser. Firefox 23 also introduces a new, simplified logo, and the option to turn JavaScript off has been removed from the Options window.
Blink, of course, will be remembered as the tag that was once the brazen champion of everything that GeoCities stood for, much like the Statue of Liberty and the USA. As the web matured, though, and GeoCities went out of vogue, so did the blink tag (and its similarly distasteful cousin,
<marquee>). Unless you intentionally go out and look for it, you probably haven’t seen blinking text in years — and if you have, it was probably provided by an animated GIF, CSS, or JavaScript, rather than the actual HTML tag. Blink has already been removed from WebKit (and thus Chrome and Safari), and it was never supported by Internet Explorer. Ironically enough, Google’s new Blink rendering engine doesn’t support blink, which means that the new version of Opera (which uses Blink instead of Presto) also lacks support. With Firefox 23 retiring support for blink, major browser support is finally at an end, and thus we enter a new epoch.[Source]
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