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Blinky vs Blinkie - What's the difference?

blinky | blinkie | see also |

Blinky is a see also of blinkie.


As nouns the difference between blinky and blinkie

is that blinky is (photography) in digital photography, a flashing pixel while blinkie is (internet) a small animated graphic for use on a webpage, usually taking the form of a picture or phrase with blinking lights around it.

As an adjective blinky

is flickery, prone to flicker.

blinky

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • flickery, prone to flicker
  • (of milk) Turned somewhat sour.

    • Noun

    (blinkies)
  • (photography) in digital photography, a flashing pixel.
    • Blinkies visually indicate the areas of a photograph where the exposure is beyond the range of the film.

    See also

    * blinkie

    blinkie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet) A small animated graphic for use on a webpage, usually taking the form of a picture or phrase with blinking lights around it.
  • * 2007 , Lisa Nakamura, Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
    • The buddyicon.info Web site offers thousands of AIM buddy icons (28838 by my most recent count), as well as "away" icons and "blinkies "...
  • * 2007 , Joelle Reeder, Katherine Scoleri, The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie
    • You want people to be able to find your entries; try to keep the extra bling, like distracting scripts and blinkies , to a minimum.
  • * 2012 , Kim Golombisky, Rebecca Hagen, White Space is Not Your Enemy
    • Don't animate your visuals to blink ad infinitum. Set a small-file blinkie to turn off after no more than three passes at whatever it is your blinkie does.

    See also

    * blinky

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