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Doing
several Clocks with hopefully not too much overhead
Credit: See link next to each clock.
| ArtDHTML provides a nifty digital clock that users can set the font style, spacing, and size for. And of course because you have the code you can also spiff it up. It uses CSS and setInterval(timer) as do most of our clocks.. | |
| 24Fun has produced one of the tiniest and neatest analog clocks. Its much more customizable in IE but runs in Mozilla and Opera very well. And the clock does not take up too much space or CPU resources. | |
| CodeLifters are the good people who provided the clock in the Title bar (or its down in the status bar if you are using an IE or NS 4 or earlier browser - shame shame). | |
Boy did we have fun trying to get all the clocks to work. First, the old cross browser ugly reared its head in several instances of clocks that demo nicxely but don't want to work in a complete set of browsers - IE5-6, NS?Mozilla, and Opera. the second problem we had was the interference between the setTimeout() and/or setInterval() commands between routines. For example, we could get several clocks to work well on their own but then they did not want to co-operate when on display with 2 or 3 other clocks.
Now this latter case is an important matter because developers can easily
have more than one setTimeout() or set Interval() command if there any animations,
timings scripts, or timeout events. So be sure to check these potential JavaScript
timer conflicts carefully.