SVG Clock: An Introduction

SVG is a promising web standard beginning to gain acceptance in the world wide web. Flash has reigned king for vector-graphics, but SVG poses an open, standardized alternative that is sure to draw developers due to its low development cost (as in free) and the fact that there is a standards body behind it.

Static SVG can be dull however, but not to fear! There is an SVG DOM as well as SMIL that can be used to animate the images. This clock uses Javascript to manipulate to SVG DOM as opposed to SMIL due to compatibility reasons and the fact that the author is not as familiar as he would like to be with SMIL.