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Thu 07/12/06 at 00:18
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No not the one with Carol Voderman, the GAD one. How are they doing it? I'm just curious I dont want one for my site =P

Although...
Sun 10/12/06 at 17:31
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"Are you sure?"
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FWIW:

I normally have my IE options "Check for newer versions of stored pages" set to "Every visit to the page" as in the past I've been caught out by not seeing the latest version of a page.

Changing the option to "Automatically" certainly makes the 'counter' run smoother!

Perhaps I'll leave my settings like this for a while, otherwise it gets on my nerves...
Thu 07/12/06 at 13:18
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"Are you sure?"
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The continuous downloading of the GIF's is a bit irritating... :P
[It's worse in IE than FF]
Thu 07/12/06 at 12:59
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"It goes so quickly"
Posts: 4,083
That's quite nice. How long has that been there?

Here's the (source code) that Freeola use, and it basically just changes the image every second.

The HTML is set to the time 00:00:00 using six single 0 images, and the JavaScript gets the time from the users computer and appears to find the difference between that time and 12 midday, then every second takes a second away (like a normal countdown) while updating the images to reflect that.

The only problem is that peoples computer clocks are not always accurate, but it's not like this is a life or death countdown :)
Thu 07/12/06 at 06:59
Regular
"Devil in disguise"
Posts: 3,151
Its javascript, a quick google turns up lots of them.

Like this one
Thu 07/12/06 at 00:18
Regular
Posts: 19,415
No not the one with Carol Voderman, the GAD one. How are they doing it? I'm just curious I dont want one for my site =P

Although...

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