SVG animated clock

Update 2009-10-23 I went with a flash version for the live site, but will keep my eye on open solutions, such as canvas which looks great

Edit: Still having server problems, now using the staging server.

Since I created the new logo I had an urge to animate the clock, also I've had feedback from a few people who said they expected it to be telling the correct time. So this evening I had some spare time and created this, based on the example at BurningBird. I've tested it on Firefox on Ubuntu, and in Opera (letters around dial were missing, will investigate). I'm using the object tag, so that I could fall back to a static version. Let me know your thoughts.



Ps. I found SVG really nice to work with. I created the original logo in Inkscape, but I wrote this by hand and it wasn't really that tricky, indeed once you understand the syntax I found it really powerful and preferred to other methods I've tried.

Opening past midnight

I received an email saying that it is confusing when a store is open past midnight. I've been trying to think of a way to make this clearer. Here is a prototype, please let me know your thoughts, does it help or make it more confusing? Perhaps there is an alternative layout you think would be better. Thanks.

Update on progress

A comment on this blog this morning from my friend Phil Wilson, reminded me that I haven't posted for ages. A quick catch up. Opening Times was crazily busy over Christmas and New Year, it even briefly peaked within the top 40,000 ranked sites on Alexa, although I suspect a lot of this was to do with other sites not being particularly busy. The server stayed up fairly well through the whole process and gave me some good insight as to how things will need to scale in the future.

In terms of adding more data I've been leaving that for a while and instead concentrating on how to keep data up to date and increase accuracy. To achieve this I've been working on a form with a history and rollback function similar to Wikipedia. This is taking a while, but hopefully I've have some ready to use in early March.