<story><title>Blink tag removed from Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcav</author><text>All snark aside, I wonder what the rationale was for doing this. It&amp;#x27;d be a shame to load a website in a browser 20 years from now, only to see the site render incorrectly due to no-longer-implemented tags. Next, &amp;lt;center&amp;gt;?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s tough, obviously, because we can&amp;#x27;t have cruft build up all over. But this seems like a fairly straightforward case that a browser could shim out in JavaScript by default. Blink is a pretty straightforward piece of internet history. It&amp;#x27;s not like &amp;lt;applet&amp;gt;, which, while also a piece of history, actually carries legitimate complexity&amp;#x2F;security risks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcpherrinm</author><text>Gecko was, afaik, the last major browser engine that supported &amp;lt;blink&amp;gt;.  Chrome and IE don&amp;#x27;t, at least.  Opera won&amp;#x27;t, after switching to, ironically enough, the engine called Blink.&lt;p&gt;So it&amp;#x27;s not exactly the same as removing &amp;lt;center&amp;gt;: Other browsers already didn&amp;#x27;t support it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Blink tag removed from Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcav</author><text>All snark aside, I wonder what the rationale was for doing this. It&amp;#x27;d be a shame to load a website in a browser 20 years from now, only to see the site render incorrectly due to no-longer-implemented tags. Next, &amp;lt;center&amp;gt;?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s tough, obviously, because we can&amp;#x27;t have cruft build up all over. But this seems like a fairly straightforward case that a browser could shim out in JavaScript by default. Blink is a pretty straightforward piece of internet history. It&amp;#x27;s not like &amp;lt;applet&amp;gt;, which, while also a piece of history, actually carries legitimate complexity&amp;#x2F;security risks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>There were parameters threaded throughout random layout functions to record how long things were supposed to blink for. It was a maintenance burden.</text></comment>