AI rotbrain discovers CSS in 2026.
As someone that has been writing CSS for something like 18 years, this is peak cringe.
<marquee>suck on these tokens</marquee>The day the blink tag was removed from the rendering engine was the day we lost our way.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/blink_element
While initially popular, <blink> became much maligned because of overuse; many people found it annoying. More importantly, it degrades readability and can be particularly problematic for users with visual impairments or cognitive disorders such as epilepsy or ADHD. It can be disorienting or, in the worst cases, even trigger seizures.
tbf it’s a valid reason to drop its support
The story behind the blink tag is so ridiculous.
At some point in the evening I mentioned that it was sad that Lynx was not going to be able to display many of the HTML extensions that we were proposing, I also pointed out that the only text style that Lynx could exploit given its environment was blinking text. We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. … Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office only to find what else but, blinking text. It was on the screen blinking in all its glory, and in the browser. How could this be, you might ask? It turns out that one of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight. He was still there in the morning and quite proud of it.
Oh come on. Nobody used it since we have animated gifs as replacement.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Geocities pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
<blink/>
Nope. That element never existed. It was <blink>text</blink>
Besides a selfclosing <blink/> would make no sense.
Besides a selfclosing <blink/> would make no sense.
My own eyeballs do it all the time. Checkmate, fish!
Well done, pigeon! You won! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scnr:
Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
I like to poop on the rooks so that they look like bishops. Victory again! Coo
You can also save up to 100% by externalizing the HTML part too
They didn’t think of just letting it generate the text (usually Markdown) and then processing it to HTML?
Wait, the LLM does the “thinking” there.
These people are indistinguishable from my grandparents when it comes to using tech
I don’t want anyone on this thread to stumble on my handwritten self hosted website because I probably used the wrong names for CSS classes or something and didn’t test it on those ultra wide monitors that go around the room.
There was a time where people were made fun of for saying they program in HTML. Now some people proudly explains you to use AI to write it. The same type of people use LLM as a calculator and are in awe for its publiposting capacities. Wait for the day they would program a AI to print on carbon paper. Two copy for one file in memory!!
this has to be satire right? please someone tell me he’s only joking. please.
In case anyone is curious, this is the original post on X.
I wouldn’t dare to venture into the badlands
Be safe out there and use xcancel.com instead
God please, this can’t be a honest question
AI is here. Deal. With It. Your authoritarian chains have been shattered, knowledge Nazi. No longer will creation be a luxury for the mentally wealthy. It has now been fully democratized so that even republican voters will be able to code soon.
