Prayer times widget

Why sites want it

Mosques, foundations, municipalities, factories, hotels and businesses that care for their guests want to show the day's prayer times on screen. The times change every day and from city to city, so updating them by hand is not practical; the screen needs to know them itself. A wrong time on screen damages trust at once.

How it could work with MIA

Today MIA's server fetches the data for widgets such as weather and exchange rates, and if the internet drops, screens show the last good value. Clock, world clock and countdown widgets are ready too. A prayer times widget could be built the same way: the day's times for a chosen province or district, the current time highlighted and the time left until the next one. An official source, such as the times published by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), could be preferred. Because the times could be fetched in advance and kept on the server, the display could stay correct through short internet outages. The widget could match your ready designs and colour palette and sit in a zone of a program. Today, if a prayer times page allows embedding, it can be shown in a web page zone, but that page needs an internet connection.

What we need to know to scope it

• Which provinces and districts
• Your preferred source for the times
• Whether the widget appears full screen or in a zone
• Extra rules, such as changing content at the call to prayer

Scope, timing and price are agreed for each project.