Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Programming - 4 Year Countdown Clock For My Layout?
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HyperLamer
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Well if you can find a way to put Javascript in your layout, sure. But even then you'd probably be banned if you did so. |
Ramsus
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
An applet does take up a lot of resources though, especially with the fancy graphics. Plus, when you don't have Java installed it gives you plugin errors and when you do it opens a Java console. 
Nobody said otherwise. In fact, I agree, and that's why I said I don't like Java applets. That says nothing of Javascript though. |
HyperLamer
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An applet does take up a lot of resources though, especially with the fancy graphics. Plus, when you don't have Java installed it gives you plugin errors and when you do it opens a Java console. |
Ramsus
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Originally posted by Xkeeper
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SPECIAL VERSION JUST FOR RAMSUS
Well, I'm really am sorry you feel so strongly over a simple script you wrote, but you seriously offended me when you assumed I didn't notice the obvious functionality of your script and glossed over the subtle implication of the irony of calling a static image a countdown clock (dry humor for the uninitiated), which is why I acted like an ass and made it obnoxiously explicit.
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Xkeeper
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<asshole mode on>
SPECIAL VERSION JUST FOR RAMSUS
Ramsus
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Originally posted by X-Fairy
Originally posted by Ramsus
It's a countdown clock. It should be counting down.
I hate Java applets though.
It does.
Year sure, if you consider a static image as counting anything. I could care less if it's dynamically generated each time the script loads.
And moving countdown clocks are stupid, unless they're on a desktop. Mainly because I do not feel like having something taking up resources just to count down constantly, especially when I see it for mabye 1 second anyway.
Right, because a half dozen or so lines of Javascript called every second is just so resource intensive. Just because one example used a Java applet doesn't mean every dynamic solution is just as bad.
I would suggest not using a countdown clock simply because movement is distracting from content (i.e. it's bad layout design), but if you're going to have something you want to call a countdown clock, then by God, it better count down. Otherwise, it just feels like an ugly misnomer. |
tuna
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Originally posted by Ramsus
It's a countdown clock. It should be counting down.
I hate Java applets though.
It does.
And moving countdown clocks are stupid, unless they're on a desktop. Mainly because I do not feel like having something taking up resources just to count down constantly, especially when I see it for mabye 1 second anyway. |
Ramsus
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It's a countdown clock. It should be counting down.
I hate Java applets though. |
Keikonium
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What bothers you about it . I don't like it as much as a moving one (thats why I kept both. I'm think about putting the moving one in my profile tho ), but the static one does look better. I will --hopefully-- be getting help with a new layout, so that way I can keep the static one in the top right cornor.
So thank you for the clock thing Xkeeper. You don't mind if I link to it off your site do you? If you do, just tell me and it will be removed asap. |
Ramsus
Posts: 127/162 |
Originally posted by Xkeeper
He means that it takes up too much resources to see it.
As in "no one likes it because it's a resource hog."
I have to agree. Just use a static one, it's not like people read those timers anyway.
Something about a static countdown clock bothers me... |
Sokarhacd
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I have one for you, but apparently iframes dont like to be shown in posts, I can see it in my profile, and in the preview in edit layout, but not in a post...so I dunno, but here
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