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		ianstormtaylor on Nov 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdow... Just fixed it to use the page visibility API to do just that. Thanks for the idea!

benjoffe on Nov 13, 2012 [–]

Looks like it only alternates between the two states (flashing and not flashing), so if the page is opened as a new tab (i.e. not focused to begin with) then the flashing occurs when the tab is not focused.

ianstormtaylor on Nov 13, 2012 | [–]

Yup good call, the first call to the interval shouldn't assume focus

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