Blinking Links

11th May 2004 · Last updated: 5th October 2016
 

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The author of this site has decided to apply the style text-decoration:blink to every link. I kid you not. This is the equivalent of using the <blink> tag around each link. It wouldn't be so bad if there weren't long lists of links on the main page. (I didn't venture any further into the site - can you blame me?) Worse, the main navigation menu, a long list of links itself, also blinks repeatedly - how are you supposed to click on anything with certainty? (Answer: you don't. You hit the Back button and get out of the site as fast as possible.)

What a way to lose visitors by annoying people. The design is also poor in my opinion, with an annoying Flash banner at the top. I couldn't stand the pointless animation of the photographs and text used.

If you're feeling brave enough, try the site yourself. The worst abuse of web coding yet?

Comments (3)

Comments are locked on this topic. Thanks to everyone who posted a comment.

1. Stefan Hayden:
   perhaps they don't know as I am useing IE 6.0.2800 on Windows and they are not flshing for me at all.
   
   Posted on 12 May 2004 at 2:56 am ¶
2. Simon Jessey:
   Just imagine how much WORSE it would be if all the links blinked at a slightly different rate, or were out of step with each other.
   
   Posted on 13 May 2004 at 7:56 pm ¶
3. Chris Hester:
   If IE6 doesn't support the code, do you think it's a ploy to make other browsers look worse?
   
   Posted on 13 May 2004 at 9:05 pm ¶