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I've not actually seen one, just the web site. Netscape has a long list of on-line watch dealers. The Beat series all seem to come in around the US$60 mark.

This has got to be an uber geek accessory. I claim no association with Swatch apart from owning one of the electric/automatics :-)

I've not actually seen one, just the web site. Netscape has a long list of on-line watch dealers. The Beat series all seem to come in around the US$60 mark.

This has got to be an uber geek accessory. I claim no association with Swatch apart from owning one of the electric/automatics :-)

I've not actually seen one, just the web site. Netscape has a long list of on-line watch dealers. The Beat series all seem to come in around the US$60 mark.

This has got to be an uber geek accessory. I claim no association with Swatch apart from owning one of the electric/automatics :-)

That is true, I have not worked on a large site before, but it is entirely possible to make a good site with HTML 3.2 that is every bit as good as Java(script), Shockwave, and image loaded sites.

Yeah, Netscape will bitch if you forget to close a table or something, but it should be that way in the first place shouldn't it?

IE is pretty forgiving, but that doesn't mean you should get lazy with your HTML.

What do you use DHTML for anyway?

Popular sites like altavista, yahoo, ebay..etc. I don't see much dynamic html there. Maybe a bit of CSS to get rid of the link underline and make them highlight when the mouse goes over(IE-specific feature), but nothing much else.

Sites that load on the JavaScript and this neato button expands menu stuff annoy me and although they seem neat at first, get old quickly.
Example:
Swatch.com

Almost any site you think of can be handled well with plain HTML 3.2 and a bit of PERL, if you don't count web applications. Even then, quite a bit of free website places offer pretty good webpage managers that don't rely on Javascript.

I guess some website designers feel they have to be the latest and greatest or else they're not worth much more than the average person with an HTML manual. Websites are just a way to access information, like books, not TV, where you shove it down people's throats.

Re metric time: there's always the swatch beat internet time. The day is divided into 1000 units (beats). No timezones, which is nice for networked and space applications.

A place to start, anyway. At least you can buy watches that display it.

The modified julian day is another standard in use, particularly in astronomy.

Hey Rob, can we get these added to the slashdot date formats, along with unix epoch?

As a scientist I've always leaned toward keeping the second as a fundamental unit, just to make converting easier. Makes things like 'standard business hours' hard to support, but that's an outdated concept anyway. :-)

Re metric time: there's always the swatch beat internet time. The day is divided into 1000 units (beats). No timezones, which is nice for networked and space applications.

A place to start, anyway. At least you can buy watches that display it.

The modified julian day is another standard in use, particularly in astronomy.

Hey Rob, can we get these added to the slashdot date formats, along with unix epoch?

As a scientist I've always leaned toward keeping the second as a fundamental unit, just to make converting easier. Makes things like 'standard business hours' hard to support, but that's an outdated concept anyway. :-)

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Yes, though it does make a nice publicity stunt for a major watchmaking company... They've even got their own meridian, running through Biel in Switzerland.

Take a look at Swatch, for a totally commercialized possibility.


...phil