Re: blinking background

Depending on the frequency of the blink, it could induce seizures in epileptics, aside from being extremely annoying. Highlighting rows with a sufficiently contrasting color will draw attention to the item, and will be seen by color blind visitors. avoid blink. it's an excellent way to get people to leave your site. At 11:47 am 2001-08-09, John Pickett wrote:

Heh, there's a reason the <blink> tag has been depreciated... Actually I tried finding it in the newest version of HTML and can't even find it there anymore :-) My 2 ¢ John Pickett http://www.bvstudios.com/ Co-Author: Inside Dreamweaver 4 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710848/xtremist ----- Original Message ----- From: "speedboy" <speedboy@nomicrosoft.org> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 6:19 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] blinking background

Fergawdsake -- WHY?!! Irritating, annoying, amateurish -- go read Jakob Nielsen on usability. Here's an alternate suggestion: A contrasting colour for the row you

wish

to highlight, keeping in mind that some people are colour blind.

1. You can create an animated gif with the an asterisk * that flashes on and off light a light bulb (slowly). 2. Or just use the asterisk to denote a certain requirement on a form or to alert the user to some area of the page. 3. Even changing the color of the text to red will alert the user. Goodluck and please post to the correct list next time, this has nothing to do with a database or php for that matter. :) -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net