ET New Tag - Documentation

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Features o Examples o Get Started
Parameters o Known Bugs o Future Features

Features

ET New Tag is an applet that checks the file date of a specific URL. If the file at the URL is newer than a number of days given in the parameters, the applet shows an image telling if the file is new. The applet also supports images for old or unknown files. There is no need anymore to manually put small new signs next to hyperlinks.

Examples

Simple example.
No fancy stuff, just gets the applet to work.
OldLimit example.
How you can customize the applet with the OldLimit parameter.

Get started

Start with a simple web-page where you want the applet. (E.g. Test.html)
Copy the class file to the same directory as Test.html:
ET_NewTag.class
Copy the applet and parameter tags from the simple example (or any other example, but it is safer to start with something simple).
If you get it to work you can add more parameters from the list below. Check out the other examples for inspiration. If you have problems, check the FAQ for more help.
If you still don't get it right, read the tutorials at http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ regarding Java applets.

Parameters

This is the list of parameters that can be used in the HTML code with this applet. If the applet is unable to interpret a parameter, it will be ignored.

The file to be checked		URL The URL that the applet will check the date of. Values: URL to file Default: none
		OldLimit The number of days that will be considered old. Values: 1-400 Default: 7
Images		NewImage If the URL is newer than the OldLimit then NewImage is shown. Values: URL to image Default: none
		OldImage If the URL is older than the OldLimit then OldImage shown. Values: URL to image Default: none
		UnknownImage If the applet doesn't get the URL file date then the UnknownImage is shown. Values: URL to image Default: none
Background		BGColor The color of the applet background. Values: 000000 - ffffff Default: ffffff (white) See Also: Color notation.

Known Bugs

Netscape 2.0 doesn't allow any applet to check the file date of a URL.

If you find any other bugs please report them to us.

Future Features

It's always possible to improve an applet, but every feature creates more code, and more code will result in longer loading times.

Currently we don't have any new features planned for this applet.