/
Blink tag and font tags

Blink tag and font tags

These were some of the early attempts (some would say abominations?) to try and give control to website authors on how to style their pages.

Netscape as the first commercial browser software company was able to play fast and loose with the HTML standard in the early days until Microsoft really got going in the early browser wars.

Related content

Browser Wars and Early Commercialization of the Web
Browser Wars and Early Commercialization of the Web
More like this
Heading and Paragraph tags
Heading and Paragraph tags
More like this
IE6 - Internet Explorer 6
IE6 - Internet Explorer 6
More like this
HTML is intended to be a simple markup language for humans to write documents and share them
HTML is intended to be a simple markup language for humans to write documents and share them
More like this
Standards Compliant Browsers
Standards Compliant Browsers
More like this
Avoid tags for emphasis, bold, italics etc.
Avoid tags for emphasis, bold, italics etc.
More like this