There is no better woot widget for woot-offs.

Thank you dydimus, this is one widget I will always have running!

One suggestion - a checkbox to make the damn light stop spinning during a woot-off. Dan has some great ideas below.

Very handy widget, but I just added a few changes to my copy that I'd recommend for the official version:

Inside the "if(request.status != 200)" branch of processFeedUpdate:

titletext.data = 'Loading error (' + request.status + '):'; // helps understand the problem
refreshInterval = preferences.wootoffRate.value; // in case it's a woot-off, refresh frequently

the 1001 loop wootoff.gif is kinda annoying, most people can probably figure out how to fix it, but i'd suggest making that an infinite loop on future updates. also maybe some features for different backgrounds, and/of changing texxt colors, i removed the whole background and made the text white so it is transparent on my dark desktop. it wasnt too hard to mod, but more preferences would be nice. :)

I love this widget! Only suggestion is adding a sound effect during woot-off that alerts you to a new item. Other than that great job!

The scrolling was turned off in the new version because of complaints of it eating CPU clock cycles for breakfast. I'll add a preference to turn it on and off in the next version.