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Blink

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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...