What is Blink?
Blink is a basic JavaScript/jQuery application intended to have a little fun with extending the overly-used <blink>
tags in the late 90's (ah, the days of early web development!).
If you're interested, you can learn more about the history of the <blink> tag; I realized this is something I would do (I suppose that's obvious, since I felt the need to recreate it in JavaScript...).
We thought we could raise the bar...
And we did! The script randomly hides and displays ("blinks") an element on a web page. Adding to the insanity, it can grab any tag (it won't append the behavior to link
, script
, or style
tags...although it wouldn't matter if it did, visually speaking). Throw this into a project with a couple-second delay and watch your designers lose their minds!
Of course it's customizable
Beyond being open-source, changing the speed at which things blink is a matter of setting a single variable. I'm sure someone can take this even further...