Re: BBC Weather Applet?

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

On 18 Dec 2007, at 11:24, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:15 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > > I know we talked about screen scraping from the BBC weather  
> > > website on
> > > this list before and that's obviously a suboptimal solution.  
> > > However,
> > > now that there are RSS feeds available from bbc.co.uk/weather, does
> > > anyone know of any panel applet that uses them? Is it possible to
> > > persuade the standard weather panel applet to read them?
> >
> > Is there a standard for weather over RSS? Or could it be that we  
> > could
> > push for the bbc format to be ratified as a pseudo standard?
> >
> > It would be far better to extend weather over RSS to a world wide
> > standard solution then make it a part of gnome weather applet  
> > etc... I
> > think locking it down to just the bbc and just the UK (or however far
> > the bbc weather extends).
>
> I tried getting the widget out of the page, but it seems that it's not
> exported yet. Hopefully it will be in the future, as I want to see the
> weather for Guildford, not Gatwick or Heathrow ;)
>
> The RSS feed is pretty unusable (you'd need to parse/hack the data  
> from
> it), let's hope for a separate widget soon, so I can embed it in my
> netvibes page.

Just filled out the satisfaction survey on the site and hinted at us  
adding it into GNOME. maybe when they read it they'll help us out :)

K,