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Well, I actually never heard of MIL-STD before. Now I know.
I am familiar with section 508's guidelines:
http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/excerpts
"(k) Software shall not use flashing or blinking text, objects, or other elements having a flash or blink frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz."
We're 1 Hz, with a 75% duty cycle.
We can't stop the author (or advertisers) from doing all of these things, but I think the question was, is it worth keeping 200 lines of code around for blinking. I say no, it isn't, since it's already nothing more than a distraction. But I'm not married to either outcome.
I just wanted to track down that elusive Mil-Spec, if it exists -- anyone find it? I believe someone did cite such a thing, back in the Netscape 0.8 day (sigh, *ten years* ago).
I'm sentimental, but if layout owners want to kill blink, I won't stand in the way. I'll just lift a glass to <blink>'s memory. It was the most cheap-fun, whine-inducing, low-life-abused tag for a long time (till MS's marquee; my own status-bar-set-from-JS innovation of Netscape 2 can claim equal or greater infamy, too).
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