AlmightyG5 said:ok i think its fixed...before it said -19,570,476,399, and it was counting down.
quagmire said:I am skeptical about apple.coms counter. It is an animated gif, so I don't know the accuracy of it. The widget counter always seems to be a couple thousand songs ahead of apple.com's counter.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/itunes500millioncounter.html
GeeYouEye said:The widget uses a different, less accurate (AFAICT) data source.
The homepage counter is a fancy bit of JavaScript that is given a number and a rate, and works off of that until you reload when it's given another number and rate.
quagmire said:I am skeptical about apple.coms counter. It is an animated gif, so I don't know the accuracy of it. The widget counter always seems to be a couple thousand songs ahead of apple.com's counter.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/itunes500millioncounter.html
It only uses ActiveX if nothing better is availablehob said:If you look at the source code here:
http://wdirect.apple.com/home/counter500million.js
You'll notice it runs off of ActiveX - a Microsoft technology. That made me chuckle. A little bit.