On Nov 15, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > 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. >>> -- >>> - Be Prepared! >>> 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.... > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Thanks Bruce I now know how to find and delete the non working Widget.. "bobtomay" at Mac Forums responded with this download. It works great in Tiger and Leopard. http://www.wunderground.com/download/widgets.asp John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacPro 2.66 Quad Nehalem -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
