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What time is it?
- nym 17y agoIT IS TIME TO GET A WATCH Just kidding, love the hack, especially the font-face!
- NathanKP 17y agoThe code is beautiful: very efficient and understandable. Nice share!
- thristian 17y agoHeh, a while ago I saw something similar done in Flash: http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/ ...and wanted to try it myself in HTML/JS: http://web.aanet.com.au/Screwtape/Toys/wordclock/index.html The font-sizing code is a bit of a hack, but it seems to be a reasonable approximation, usually filling the viewport +/- a single line.
- slice 17y ago> Please note that this webpage is using HTML5 Does the page uses HTML5 features, or just syntax?
- blasdel 17y agoNone of the above! The only thing remotely html5-ey about it is the use of <!doctype html>, which sane people have been using for years. I don't think he's using any features less than a decade old!
- mkinsella 17y agoVery slick. Time-telling devices are always interesting.
- jdp 17y agoThis would be amazing if it weren't for the theme switcher and text at the bottom.
- Raphael 17y agoYou didn't light up the "A": "IT IS [A] QUARTER TO EIGHT".
- skoob 17y ago"IT IS QUARTER TO EIGHT" is perfectly cromulent: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22it%20is%20quarter%20to%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22it%20is%20quarter%20to%22
- ashishb4u 17y agoThough i agree, "IT IS QUARTER TO EIGHT" is perfectly cromulent. But thats not a justified explanation. Reason: 5,450,000 results for "it is a quarter to" against 226,000 for "IT IS QUARTER TO EIGHT"!!! :)
- stcredzero 17y agoYes. If we went that way, then apostrophe-s would denote a plural! (It's probably inevitable, anyhow!)
- chromoose 17y agoNice stuff. As mentioned at the bottom it is based off a production version by Biergert & Funk (http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/biergert-and-funk-qlocktwo-gets-an-english-version-our-sincerest/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/biergert-and-funk-qlocktw...) But it is worth noting that an instructable on how to make a lower cost version can also be found here :http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Word-Clock/ http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Word-Clock/
- listic 17y agoInteresting. The idea looks similar to Art. Lebedev's Verbarius clock, but more low-tech and more pricey. http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/verbarius/ http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/verbarius/ store: http://store.artlebedev.com/office/gadgets/verbarius/ http://store.artlebedev.com/office/gadgets/verbarius/ I wonder if Biergert & Funk heard of Verbarius. Seems like Art. Lebedev was first with the idea?
- NathanKP 17y agoFollowing the author's own advice I have made a Mac OS X dashboard widget version and made it freely available: http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/10/dashboard-text-clock-widget-for-mac-os.html http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/10/dashboard-text-...