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Interesting story there.

Lou Montulli says he is the inventor because he mentioned something on those lines over coffee. Sadly he doesn't even state the engineer's name who actually took his joke to implementation to get <blink> into the browser.

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The engineer who implemented it has been in hiding since the late 90s.

Somehow I got it in my head that jwz implemented it. And I'm not the only one. But I can't find actual proof of the evil deed, and jwz in fact denies it -- although he does take credit for adding "MilSpec blinking". It seems that at worst jwz was responsible for eventually adding it to the linux version of Mozilla. While the original implementor fessed up last year, and actually got into mozilla's credits for it at long last: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2009/03/credit_...

Urk, now I'm remembering one time when I walked by jwz somewhere in SoMa, and thought "if he wasn't on the other side of the street already, I'd have to cross to avoid that evil blink tag creator". And now I'm feeling all regretful. Will the pain that tag inflicted on the world never cease?

(BTW, Microsoft are responsible for marquee.)

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