Sorry, this is not really a Doctor Who post.
Not a lot of people will even remember this, but early HTML had an element called Blink which made text, well... blink on and off.
It never made it into a w3c standard, and was generally regarded as ugly and pointless so when Internet Explorer stopped supporting it, it wasn't a major surprise. Chrome never supported it, and now in the latest update, neither does Firefox.
I've got mixed feelings about it. I used blink in my very very first web pages (called SteveNET) and they looked pretty naff, but seeing as it was before you could even do in-line graphics, let alone coloured text, it was better than just plain text.
But in this day and age, it's really about as useful as a chocolate teapot, and just clogging up the code-base, so it makes sense to drop it.
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