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Oddly enough Chrome/Blink still has the String.prototype.blink method to create a blink tag from a string. If I recall correctly it's actually part of an ES (no

by jacobr 13y ago

Oddly enough Chrome/Blink still has the String.prototype.blink method to create a blink tag from a string. If I recall correctly it's actually part of an ES (not DOM) standard.

Bockit 13y ago
Wow. Because this surprised me so much, I just found out that if you open up a node REPL and type 'hello'.blink() you get '<blink>Hello</blink>' returned. So I guess it's an ES thing and it boggles my mind. I was trying to find the ES standard where it's specified but I'll settle for this[1] instead. Interestingly enough you have quite a few HTML wrapping functions as part of the spec. [1]: http://javascript.spec.whatwg.org/#string.prototype.blink http://javascript.spec.whatwg.org/#string.prototype.blink
- Achshar 13y ago
  What could possibly be the use of that.
  - nnnnni 13y ago
    <p style="color: red"> <script> var str="•"; document.write(str.blink()); </script> </p> That would make a blinking red dot. It'd be good for status lights, I guess.