Blink Support(s)
Published 11 years, 7 months pastJust a quick followup to last month’s post about @supports:
@supports (text-decoration: blink) {
#test {
color: green;
background: yellow;
text-decoration: blink;
}
}
Results in all @supports-supporting browsers I was able to test: green text on a yellow background, except Firefox 22, which additionally blinks the text. The latest nightly builds of Firefox 23 do not blink the text, thanks to bug 857820.
Discuss.
Comments (6)
The keyword “blink” is still supported. From a comment in bug 857820.
Thus “blink” is supported, it just does not blink…
Lars: I’m absolutely aware of that, believe me. But when the text doesn’t blink, I don’t know that most people would regard that as actual support, as per my argument in last month’s post.
I am confused.
In this particular case, it seems like if anything it is a spec bug.
While I agree it is not clear that support for blink tag includes browsers whose tags don’t blink, the spec clearly states
‘ Conforming user agents may simply not blink the text.’
Wouldn’t the ‘correct’ thing to do be update the spec to remove this wording, and thereby make the browsers remove this from their list of @support-ed properties?
Yup, this is a spec bug. Due to the (ridiculous) way the spec is written, Mozilla is fully correct to let the browser pass for @supports.
Let’s poke the bear at bug 857820 and see if anything can be done about the spec.
In this case, the browsers are saying “I support that — I fully understand what you want me to do, and I could easily do it — but I refuse.”
Ben: true, but then it would be a simple matter for a browser to parse all known property-value combinations, and just “refuse” to do anything with those it hasn’t yet implemented. Does that sound like support to you? It sounds like parsing to me, not support. Support is when you actually do what the author has specified, not when you recognize what the author has said. Under your argument, even a badly-broken, wildly inconsistent implementation is still “support” because the property and value were correctly parsed.