QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 15 2008, 05:45 PM)
Only problem is it's online only. If we can nail the local-time issues, package it up for offline use, I know a whole bunch of people who would find it useful
No problem, functionality has been built in the script all the time (I forgot to tell about it, though) ... just load it as
http://www.dmuller.net/realtime/mars.php?offline=true (same url as for online viewing, just add ?...) and then in your browser choose "Save Page As ... web-page, complete ... and give it a .htm or .html suffix". Let me know if it causes issues, and visit the online version occasionally in case there are updates.
I made a minor change to the Mars Clocks, however, and they now update more frequently than at the previous 1 second interval.
The things with my scripts being based on server time (which requires more programming than having it on browser time) has a long history back to MEX MOI / Beagle2 EDL. I was in some sort of discussion with some ESA IT staff, and they said that their policy (then) was not to have javascripts because anything time based could go haywire if the user's browser time is off ... so I developed a small personal php script (I dont think ESA ever took it
) to deal with that, and it still lives on. Needless to say, at that time I did not know about UMSF and its predecessors!
EDIT: I probably should put the download instructions on the website itself, or provide another one-click solution. I'll try working on it tonite ...