>>>As for the flashing, it is extremely annoying and I haven't found anyone who liked to watch it. I know a few guys who liked to write flashing screens back in the DOS days, when they thought it was cool. And Fox still has it for backward compatibility. And perhaps a couple of urgent cases when you may really need it. But then there are so many ways to write awful GUI, flashing or not.
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>>Agreed (mostly). However, no matter how much you may dislike flashing text, I'm am certain that there is an appropriate time and situation where a developer would want to use it and if they didn't have that ability it sure would suck. For example, think of an application aimed towards kids. Say a simple math game where if they got the answer correct, it would, God forbid, FLASH green!!!!
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>Wouldn't describe that as urgent, but yes, it should flash a few times. It should definitely NOT remain flashing for the next hour.

No, in my example, it isn't "urgent" but it does add some fun to the kids learning experience imo. And no, to remain flashing would be overkill.