173537 - Disable blink-tag as default behaviour

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Ulrich]

Currently, blink-tags are enabled by default and can be disabled by adding
"user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false);" to the user.js file.

Since
- blinking text is difficult to read because it hides the text for seconds
- the CSS2 specs doesn't require browsers to support blink-tags
- Chimera wants to be a browser that "just works" with standard settings for
everybody, and Joe User can't change a config file
- Adding a setting "blink tags on/off" to the preferences would make the browser
too complicated

...I suggest that blink-tags as disabled by default and can be enabled by adding
a line into the user.js file

Comment 1

[John Flynn]

I think I will go ahead and agree with this; the blink tag is one of the most
useless oddities to ever come out of Netscape; abolishing it would be purely for
the good of humankind.

I'm not quite sure how adding a preference for enabling or disabling blink makes
the browser too "complicated", surely I can point out prefrences that are more
complicated than that, like "Enable HTTP 1.1 pipelining", for instance.

[ ]  Allow blinking text via <blink> tag

sounds pretty basic.

-Z

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Chimera doesn't have a GUI preference for HTTP Pipelining.

Comment 3

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Confirming. A GUI pref for this *could* be put in the "Web Features" section,
but I'm voting against it.

For serious uses of blink, if there are any, you can use "text-decoration:
blink;" instead, which actually validates.

Comment 4

[S Woodside]

Blink is horrible and should be off by default in Chimera. Whatever Mozilla
does, it is against the Mac OS philosophy to have blink enabled. Plus it gives
me conniptions.

Comment 5

[S Woodside]

*** Bug 186223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

We can't start turning off various features by default. I agree that prefs UI
might be appropriate here. Seems like a good opportunity for 3rd party pref panels.