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Scalable digital clock using SVG and Javascript to show clear crisp system time at any size.
Directly inspired by DigClock (http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4254/).
I use the digital clock widget scaled pretty large on my laptop to keep track of the time at a glance while I'm working out. Most of the existing digital clock widgets get blurry when scaled up and the only scalable alternatives are flash based, which I'm not keen on having constantly running.
So I made my own digital clock widget using SVG and javascript to display the system time crisply at any size. The widget has theming, you can cycle through the currently available designs (only two right now) by simply clicking on the widget. The default theme was my second attempt at creating an SVG, my first being a replication of the previously mentioned DigClock design which is included as the alternative theme.
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It's not that I dislike flash, quite the opposite actually, its just a matter of the flash clock widgets that I tried, while being perfectly suited to the task of displaying the time, raised some issues when scaled up to take over a significant portion of the screen:
1. The average CPU usage was 4-6% for that widget alone (as reported in Windows Task Manager), that's on a quad core 1.73ghz i7 CPU.
2. There was a lot of empty space separating the widget and that little floating widget toolbar resulting in the toolbar being quite far off screen.
3. Right Clicking on the flash object doesn't show the widget context menu.
These were all minor issues and not really the reason why I decided to make this widget but more the reason why I chose to implement it in SVG.
The reason I made this widget is simply because I liked the DigClock design and wanted to look at a non-blurry version of it when scaled to a larger size.
Hope this clears things up.
By hanomu , # May 3, 2011 2:18:38 PM
Flash usually only hangs when you program it to.
By DasRakel , # May 3, 2011 8:43:04 AM