On Nov 14, 2011, at 12:54 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
>
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Dan wrote:
>
>> At 10:00 AM -0800 11/13/2011, JohnCarmonne wrote:
>>> narrowed down to the Weather Applet in Dashboard
>>
>> Does it access weather.com? If so, it's that site's problemo. They've
>> killed some of their API - it just returns "invalid license key" and "404"
>> errors now. This started... a week ago, +/- ??
>>
>> - Dan.
>> --
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>> http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp
>> - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
>>
>
> A week ago, It will access the weather com sometimes, and it will allow the
> choosing of cities but returns a blank widget on all 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 PPC
> and Intels. The SL's and Lion work fine
Dashboard widgets are all Javascript and HTML code...they're essentially
'captive' web pages.
The Weather widget itself is a package, if you view the contents you can peruse
and change the plist files, the javascript (.js) files and html in the widget.
In 10.6 and 10.7 the Weather widget's data is gathered via the javascript file
in the hidden system directory:
/System/Library/WidgetResources/.parsers
the weatherParser.js file contains the functions to access the weather data, it
uses an Apple.com url to do so:
var url = 'http://iphone-wu.apple.com/dgw?imei=' + uid +
'&apptype=weather&t=' + numRequests++;
The corresponding code in 10.4 is in parser.js in the Weather widget itself and
the url variiable is:
var url = 'http://apple.accuweather.com/adcbin/apple/Apple
_Weather_Data.asp?zipcode='
Note the difference.
Apple didn't kill your software in a dastardly fashion, ANOTHER COMPANY
ENTIRELY stopped providing data....
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University of Arizona
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