I feel a bit foolish treading so close on Otfried's heels, but I've
just been putting the finishing touches to a JavaScript medieval
calendar site I've been working up for a while, and I thought I'd
better go public before Otfried's elegant program corners the
market. The URL is:
http://www.execulink.com/~edwall/calendar/mcc.htm
It differs from Otfried's program in that its primary purpose is to
prepare calendars (in the sense of tables with the days of the week
across the top and a box for each day of the month), for any month
or year between 500 and 1582, according to the Julian calendar.
Feast days are colour-coded, and if you pass the mouse over a
coloured day, the name of the feast will appear on the status line of
your browser. The most elaborate feature is its configurability: you
can create your own calendar (in the sense of a set of feasts
honoured in a particular diocese, church or religious order at a
particular time), and have your tables displayed accordingly. You can
also make any calendar (set of feasts) that you create available to
other users. I've put up two calendars to start with (a generic one with
the more popular feasts, and one based on the Hereford use). One
feature I mean to add is the ability to load your own customized
calendar directly; for the time being, you can only load the ones the
program knows about. If you create one, let me know and I'll add it
to the list. I hope that there will eventually be a long list of calendars
available; certainly it should have Sarum, Rome, the major orders,
etc., each perhaps with chronological distinctions. I'd be very
interested in any and all comments or suggestions; in particular, I'd
like to know which browsers can and cannot run the thing (I know
that it works on Netscape 4.5 and MS Internet Explorer 4, and that
it does not run on Opera). Your browser must have JavaScript and
frames enabled to run it, and also style sheets to get the full effect.
And it calculates indictions.
Peter Binkley
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