>>>Some "thinking" people have expressed the opinion that MS "guidelines/standards" are more about suppressing innovation (from "outside") than increasing productivity.
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>>How does an ugly looking, very annoying, get old fast, blinkg control, is suppressing your right to innovation?
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>If one can get past assuming that every application is just a bunch of forms with data-entry controls and that perhaps that "blinking control" is part of a control system that is monitoring a critical process which has now exceeded some margin of tolerance, then perhaps we won't resort to knee-jerk reactions that categorize all "blinking" as "bad" ...

Hi Gerry,

Although I like the way Alex describes "blinking" text I must agree with you that this entire thread is arguing about opinion. And usefulness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder (although I hasten to add that I don't use blinking text :)

I think any of us who were programming in DOS days and/or early Internet website days have been over-exposed to blinking text but, still, there is no intrinsic right or wrong about it.