I sometimes think that my getElementsBySelector script (which inspired Behavior, which in turn inspired jQuery) may end up being the most significant 130 lines of code I'll ever write. http://simonwillison.net/2003/Mar/25/getElementsBySelector/
Absolutely. The jQuery test suite still uses the original markup from your script's test suite. I wrote my selector implementation at about the same time that Dean Edwards wrote his (but he published first). You were the absolute first, though. Major kudos to you, for sure.
I just remembered that I had a full list of those whose work I used as inspiration on the original jquery.com site (including Simon Willison, Dean Edwards, and the Behaviour library).
It was likely unintentional here, but that dialect is Middle English; it sounds like "what" to our modern ears (so it's eggcorned into it a bit), but the word is really "wot." As far as I can search, wot is just defined as "know", but it seems to get used in place of "that" fairly often despite that definition, even by Shakespeare, so it's not like it's an unofficial use.
A clear example of the eggcorned form is the title of the fifth chapter of the Poignant Guide: "Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream."
