XHTML time based content(and text emphasis)

[SycChris]

I need to have an XHTML document display certain information from only 4pm-5pm (all same time zone and what not) daily. I'm not sure how to implement it because it is being displayed on an IP phone and it has to be written purely in XHTML (no javascript). If it is possible to just have a timer(not based on time of day) but every set amount of time display certain info, and otherwise just display nothing, that might work as well.

As a side request. I need to emphasize text (blinking would be the best) in this XHTML document, and apparently the IP phone doesn't recognize the blink tag, any suggestions?

 

[cLFlaVA]

if you need time-sensitive information displayed on a user's screen, without using javascript, then you will need some sort of server-side coding: asp, php, coldfusion, perl, etc.



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[BlindPete]

Ditto on time sense, ask that part in JS or other board.

As for blinking text. You say the devise does not understand:

This <blink>word</blink> is Blinking

I do not believe that <blink> is even a part of the standard?

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp

Although it is part of CSS2

http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_text-decoration.asp

blink Defines a blinking text (does not work in IE and Opera)

-Pete

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[SycChris]

That is correct, the <blink> tag is not recognized. I imagine that the phone only recognizes a reduced subset of XHTML tags, I wanted to know of other suggestions to emphasize (beyond just bold), or if there was possibly another tag or combination of tags that would make the text blink.

On the topic of the time based info; their is absolutly no way to use pure XHTML to change content based on time? I imagined this but was not sure.

Thank you both for your comments!

 

[BlindPete]

Sorry about the bad news. You still might get your blink using CSS

text-decoration: blink

-Pete
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