On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Natalie Ford wrote:
> I need to put a countdown to a specific date on a web page. Can anyone
> tell me the best way to do this? Is there something I have missed in HTML
> itself that will do this? Do I need JavaScript or Perl or ANOther? Any
> help will be much appreciated as I need to do this in a relatively short
> time-frame (the next three days?!!)...
Okay, okay! My bad ;-) I know I'm meant to be writing this for NMS but
I've been a little busy...
If you want it to continually update then I'd recommend doing it in
(shock, horror) Java. As way of an appology I'm more than happy to
write you a quick Applet to do this...
Later.
Mark.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name => 'Mark Fowler', Title => 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm => 'Profero Ltd', Web => 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone => '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )