Sunday, April 17, 2005 AD
Blinking awful
A useful tip for all those thousands of Firefox users wishing to access the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England, but put off by the horror that is that site's excessive use of the infamous <blink> tag.
Simply go to about:config, scroll down to the "browser.blink_allowed" attribute, and double-click it so it reads "false". Then you can return to the ELCE's home page, and enjoy the site without the page titles making you feel slightly ill.
All part of the service. ;-)
Update: I'm afraid Internet Explorer users (who still, inexplicably, account for the majority of visitors to this site) don't have a dog in this race. IE ignores the "blink" tag, which was (if memory serves) a Netscape "proprietary extension" back in the days of the "browser wars". That's why it came as such a shock to visit the ELCE site for the first time since switching to Firefox and see... .
Simply go to about:config, scroll down to the "browser.blink_allowed" attribute, and double-click it so it reads "false". Then you can return to the ELCE's home page, and enjoy the site without the page titles making you feel slightly ill.
All part of the service. ;-)
Update: I'm afraid Internet Explorer users (who still, inexplicably, account for the majority of visitors to this site) don't have a dog in this race. IE ignores the "blink" tag, which was (if memory serves) a Netscape "proprietary extension" back in the days of the "browser wars". That's why it came as such a shock to visit the ELCE site for the first time since switching to Firefox and see... .
