[chrismorgan]

I looked at it and wondered what was so special about it. Only when I read the comments did I suspect that I had been protected from some great evil by my browser.

You see, I use Firefox. Firefox removed <blink> support a while ago.

[zackbrown]

It's implemented using a CSS animation that's decorating all of the <em> tags (which is what Google uses to wrap the matched search terms on the page and make them bold.)

This is why the word "html" also blinks on that page.

CSS animations are a more modern feature than <blink> tags, of course -- are you using an old version of Firefox?

[error54]

I see the blinking. Firefox 27.0.1 here

[username]

Same here.

[ZoF]

Honestly though; I bet you use chrome, didn't even bother to see if this worked in Firefox, and saw this as an opportunity to trash another browser based on your knowledge that <blink> support was deprecated.

I use Chrome, I like it better than Firefox, I also knew blink was deprecated in FF and had the same thought(would this work in firefox?) because I hadn't bothered to check if this was done using CSS or the <blink> tag. Although I didn't consider commenting on it.

Unless you're using a version of firefox older than 24 this is a pretty weird statement.

[chrismorgan]

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rather solid Mozilla/Firefox fan. I have Chromium installed for verification that things work with my web development, but that's all I use it for. I much prefer Firefox. It was only when I read the comments that had been made here that I remembered that Firefox had removed <blink> support and checked it in Chrome to see what had been intended.

I did not actually check at that point that it had used <blink> but assumed. This was an error.

As it happens, I run Nightly and for whatever reason the animation is not functioning there. I presume it's faulty browser detection on their part or the lack of a prefix-free version or some such thing.

[ZoF]

Good to hear.

Sorry for being a dick; it just seemed like you were trying to make an anti-FF statement based on prior knowledge and nothing else, glad to hear it was just their nightly build not functioning properly.

For what it's worth, I prefer FF as a company, but I like Chrome for syncing tabs and the developer tools.

[chrismorgan]

CSS animations work fine in Nightly. I'll say with certainty 0.95 that it'll be Google's fault.

As a corollary, the AdWords management interface detects Nightly as an old browser rather than a very new browser.

[ZoF]

Thinking about it I agree it does seem infinitely more likely to be something on Google's end.

[ktsmith]

It doesn't use the blink tag it uses css animation:

animation: 1s steps(1, end) 0s normal none infinite blink;

[userbinator]

If my filtering proxy caught <blink>, I'd get everything bolded instead. ( http://i61.tinypic.com/20i77kl.png )

[ZoF]

Heh, funny in this context because the only items on the page that are blinking are those which would normally be bold anyway as they were in the query.

[lelandbatey]

Interesting, because I am also using Firefox and I see the blink tags.