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: ''And'', let me reiterate your "app"'s design goal: you kindly send this "app" to some hapless schmuck who has never seen a file extension or an alarm clock, so that he can wake up in time; now every night before he goes to bed he needs to fire up an html file, calculate how many ''seconds'' he needs to sleep, type that in carefully, remember what ''filename'' it is and type ''that'' in carefully, then spend all night worrying if he typed anything wrong (you did no error check) or if the computer would itself go to sleep before dawn (Mr. Schmuck might not have your l33t mobile device)—I feel sorry for the poor soul. Then again, it's probably his own fault for making acquaintance with a "major geekage" who doesn't know to use javascript to calcuate time or file drag and drop. Meh. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 23:10, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
::It probably just needs some rewriting. I think an analogue clock with an audible alarm (a variation on the "Draw a clock" task currently in draft), only it needs a full set of hands, a facility to set the alarm time, and a choice of audio file. This should not be a problem. I'm sure one of us can knock up a task description for that. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 23:31, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
What you were saying about "hapless schmuck", etc. was very funny. I'll tell all the other geeks what you said. But, I, being blind, make non-visual programs. With the HTML meta command and the "http-equiv" set to "refresh", the variable sets the content to a number of seconds, followed by ";url=" and then the filename, ".mp3". I've written all kinds of apps like this since 2007, and, with my knowledge of using MediaWiki editing (which I got from editing thousands of other wikis between late 2009 and now), that this is a programmer's wiki paradise. I can write apps, as long as they are original in the RC community. I guess mine ripped off of other ones or something. And what ridiculous person would say, "no more document.write for JavaScript"? That, and it's "writeln" counterpart, are the only way to actually produce HTML that's being manipulated by JavaScript. You know, I'm obsessed with client-side JavaScript. The JS definitive guide doesn't mention HTML "server tags" and server JS. What book would I need for that? Or, better yet, what RC page? [[User:Star651|Star651]] 23:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
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