Blinking (flashing) Text to highlight Special Offers

[JhnStcks]

Would be interested in peoples thoughts on this vote also.

[Jon Webb]

Like everything in design it comes down to context.  If it looks good and does what it needs to do in the context of your website, then go with whatever.  Do be sure though that whatever you choose it supported cross-browser and supported by w3c (body that writes standards for the web).  The old 'blink' tag in html has now been deprecated for example, so better to use an alternative method of implementation such as JavaScript.

Therefore, can't really vote as without context, cannot say if good, bad or ugly. 

[altteam]

I will never say that it is good, according to my taste, but it's quite ok, if a page is not overloaded by ads, flash, and if a blinking offer doesn't take a good part of a page.

[seamus]

The old 'blink' tag in html has now been deprecated for example, so better to use an alternative method of implementation such as JavaScript.

You dont need javascript for blinking text, css will do fine

Code:

 text-decoration: blink;

the reason why the old blink tag has been deprecated is because of the introduction of html5 and css3 which had added an extra load of functions, so quite alot of the old functions (like blink) are being passed on to css

[Baa]

I thought all this kind of stuff went out 10 years ago, do people still use it?

I can't abide anything moving, blinking or flashing while I'm trying to do something. While I probably wouldn't click away solely on that score, it would definitely be a contributing factor!

[P2Webdesign]

Hi

Try 'Fade' its a little more easy on the eye but still gets attention. But all said good colour/graphics on a site should draw the users eye to any call to action.

Or use the new CSS to expand and contract the text, another possibility.

Nick

[scotserve]

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/

I can fail web accessibility standards - see 2.2.2

Or

http://webacc-dev.cita.illinois.edu/rule/100/