Gordon Potter's Web Experiments
U.S. Casualties in Iraq
I put this page up on an old website of mine not that long after the start of the Iraq War. I had found a few counters on the web. But I decided I wanted to try and visually represent the total count without having to manually update the statitics. This counter provides up to the day accurate count of the number of American casualties in the Iraq war.
As of this writing (October 2009) the count is 4348. When I first put the counter on my website it was in the hundreds.
Date:
2003
I found a javascript object on the website antiwar.com. The script is very, very, basic. It essentially loads the javascript object from a separate server and queries the total count of casualties. The count is then part of a simple loop document.writes the contents on the page. I guess tyou could call this an early attempt at a mashup or even a rudimentary kind of AJAX, before it became a big buzzword.