MOD54415 Web Server

[jediengineer]

Actually Dan, your first sentence is almost 100% accurate- it's a "get your attention or the device actually will explode..." warning, thus the need for flashing red.

Everyone else - I'm still a bit of a newb. I just did a crash course on C and C++ in september, and have been learning my way through it since then. I haven't touched HTML since 2004, and never learned Java or CSS for that matter either. I appreciate all the encouragement and reasons NOT to blink or flash, but I could really use the help making it flash or blink please. And it has to be HTML, maybe CSS if I can wrap my head around that enough to get started. Thanks!!

Tony

[rhopf1]

Imbed an animated gif.

[dciliske]

To blink text it's as simple as putting the text in a <blink></blink> tag/element, though I think Tony's approach to using a javascript "pulsate" function may be better, since it's not so jarring but still directs attention. My apologies about being kinda harsh in arguing against blinking; it's just one of those issues where when most people say "I know most people say not to do X, but this case is special and needs it", they're incorrect. Also, blinking text became one of the greatest sins of web design circa 2000, so when it crops up even today it's... painful.

Clearly you have a valid need, but be careful how you do it and how much you use. Honestly, I might recommend searching some web design forums/posting on them. Oh, and if you post, be clear that you know <blink> is bad, but you need to immediately draw the users attention before something physically goes boom... (most web design people aren't working on machinery controllers you see ).

-Dan

[jediengineer]

No worries Dan, it wasn't harsh. I realize you were trying o be funny and I thought it was funnier that you hit the nail on the head! I'll see what blink can do - this webpage is a troubleshooting diagnostics page, and will rarely be used. But it still needs to draw attention. As long as it blinks in ie and firefox, we're good. Thanks, I'll let you know if it works!

Tony

[rhopf1]

The <blink> tag is VERY unreliable and probably won't work on any browsers other than Firefox. Animated gifs work everywhere. I too hate blinking anything but have made big red animated graphic thingy's that blink. Works fine with Netburner web server and Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera.......

On web page 'gets' just place desired gif per error status, stable green or blinking red.

[dciliske]

Ah.... I see. To be honest, I've never used the <blink> tag myself (due to not doing webpages until it was already deemed poor practice), just seen some really funny excuses for websites that use them

[jediengineer]

The blink tag did work in pale moon and firefox, which is fine. This is part of a troubleshooting piece of my software, so I'll be able to specify the browser. Animating gifs will be more troublesome for me than the blink tag will. Thanks guys!!