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🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jun 7, 2016 08:12 PM EDT:

There are now animated clocks, and you can watch games live. The clocks appear in timed games above and below the board. The one below the board is for the player whose turn it is to move, and, as long as JavaScript is on, this one counts down one second at a time. It shows days as a serif number on a white square and hours, minutes, and seconds in a digital clock font (DSEG7 Classic Bold from http://www.keshikan.net/fonts-e.html). The number of days will not show up unless greater than zero. The hours, minutes, and seconds appear in green so long as only grace time is being used, and they change to yellow when grace time is used up, and time is being lost for real. The clock for the opponent of the current player appears at the top, and its hours, minutes, and seconds appear in red. The color coding is by traffic light colors. Red is for the player who is stopped, and green and yellow are for the player who can go.

When you view a game you're not playing, and you're viewing the latest move, the page will update whenever a new move is made. JavaScript must be on for this to work. This allows you to view games live, watching the moves as they're being made.