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| From | Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website |
| Date | 2013-11-29 00:12 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <l78m5a$7l6$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:20:25 +0200, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2013-11-28 3:11, Denis McMahon wrote: >> Most computer users have a clock somewhere on their screen already, >> showing the time zone(s) that they want, unless they made a conscious >> decision not to have one there. > Well, yes - on desktop screens. And displaying current time on a web > page is mostly pointless or worse. But... >> Why do you want to use cpu resources on the client system in >> duplicating a feature that probably already exists? > For example, if you have created an HTML5 application > (HTML+CSS+JavaScript that works like an application in a browser) that > you expect people to use mostly in pocket-size devices, there might be > good reasons for including time display. Perhaps even if the time does > not relate to the functionality of the application. After all, many > people have no watch these days, they look at their "phone" to see what > time it is. Even so, if they want to view the time on screen there's probably a more efficient native method in the device than doing so through an interpreted scripting language. If they don't want to view the time on screen, then why are you taking up display real estate, cpu cycles and battery power in doing so? Case 1 - user wants to know the time always, at all costs: User probably has a device that either directly, or through an app they have running, always displays the time somewhere on the screen. You don't need to duplicate what the user already has. Case 2 - user isn't so bothered about knowing the time: Why waste resources doing it - if user wants it they can probably get it more efficiently natively or with an app. If the user doesn't want it, you don't need to use resources delivering it. -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com
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Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Rhino <no_offline_contact_please@example.com> - 2013-11-27 16:15 -0500
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 01:11 +0000
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-11-28 11:20 +0200
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-29 00:12 +0000
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-11-29 13:51 +1100
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-29 10:58 +0100
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-29 21:30 +0000
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-11-28 23:09 +0100
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2013-11-28 23:24 +0000
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2013-11-29 13:12 +0000
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-11-29 14:39 +0100
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-30 20:35 +0000
Re: OT: Displaying current time on a website "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2013-12-01 07:57 +0000
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