<div dir="ltr">I think you need to define what you mean by HTML.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/b/blink.htm">http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/b/blink.htm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>It has in fact been supported by Netscape, it was supported in IE4 (and I believe phased out after that). It is part of the css1 standard (text-decoration: blink). It has never been part of the HTML standard; however, as part of the CSS2.1 standard it is required to be recognized by browsers - they have the option of whether or not they should actually blink the text, but they must display the text and apply css modifiers to it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So it IS a part of a web-standard. And by the definition of the acronymn, it is valid HTML. It never was a widely accepted/supported tag, and it is not defined in the w3 HTML standard. But it is valid XML/valid HTML =)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Luke -Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tuesday 09 September 2008 14:12:38 Nathan Cerny wrote:<br>
> I think he meant the <blink> </blink> tags :)<br>
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</div>Those have never been part of HTML either.<br>
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