The post below is related to old version of my speed dial weather and still might be useful to someone who uses old versions of Opera. For Opera 11.50+ there is a new Opera extension:
https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/weather-by-wundergound/
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Were you thinking about some alternative way how to use speed dial? Here is one way how you can do that. I've created site with big weather images and description.
So how it works?
First part is the URL of the site:
http://speeddial.operacesky.net/weather.php
Put this URL into some speed dial window
Second part is query string. There are five (all optional) parameters that you can use.
1 - Language: lang=en or cs/fr - default is "cs" (Czech language)
2 - Area: area=London - default is Prague (Capital of Czech Republic)
3 - Top: top=100 - this parameter sets margin-top css property of images and description, thank to this parameter you can align the main parts to center of your speeddial window.
4 - Redirect: redirect=http://www.wunderground.com/ - Site to which you get redirected when you click on speed dial window. Default http://www.wunderground.com/. You can also type: no - this means that you won't be redirected anywhere. If you want to use site with query string you will have to encode this URL, or use some site like http://bit.ly/ (that's what I do).
[NEW] 5 - Degrees: deg=F - Use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius
Thanks for Frenzie who gave me the idea of speed dial vs. real window detection.
So here is one completed example:
http://speeddial.operacesky.net/weather.php?lang=en&area=Oslo&top=100&redirect=http://is.gd/eoCvi
And here is screen of the result:
I hope you like it =)
BTW you should set time interval to reload this speed dial window (I use 30 minutes)
It is the *only way* to get weather forecast in Opera that works in older OS.
and it is so useful !!
Thanks to you Opera guys, I reanimated the formerly dead miniweather in my Firefox Speedial addon. I have a 9x9-grid an in the last row middle, put as url for preview: http://speeddial.operacesky.net/weather.php?lang=de&area=Hannover&top=100, horizontal adjust on and no cutting allowed. 3-day forecast with symbol and temperature. Great!
Originally posted by valeksandrov:
Done. Check your Opera mail
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
It should be working now. Could you please resend it?
Originally posted by valeksandrov:
The extensions is build for the three-column weather and changing it to another template would be quite difficult. There is also lot's of very good extensions for one day only.
Originally posted by valeksandrov:
You you should have the e-mail with localization file in your myopera mail :)
Update: ok you don't because you probably haven't activated it yet. Can you pleas log in on mail.opera.com so I can send it to you?
Looking forward!
but i'm interested in the translation. I'll send you e-mail once I return from vacation.
Thank you so much for your wonderful extension!
If you allow me a quick question: is there an option to switch from "three day forecast" to a forecast for "the current" day only?
Thanks again!
P.S. Let me know if you will be interested in Bulgarian translation.
To enter more cities just separate them with semicolon like:
Oslo; Stockholm
Originally posted by z@h3k:
Thanks zahek, your ideas is mostly realistic, my ideas is mostly utopic.
Originally posted by SATAB:
Thank you, thank you
Originally posted by metude:
This is actually very interesting idea. I'm not promising anything, but I will definitely think about it.
Charles.
Originally posted by Frenzie:
It is really easy to set up the speed dial extension, but you are right that it is more comfortable to just sync the link
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
It's the first speeddial extension I installed (not counting the demo clock thing a while ago), so for me it certainly doesn't matter, but I've seen how many speeddials some people have: there's no reason to presume they'll be any more restrained with speeddial extensions.
Originally posted by theCharlesF:
Well, the thing is that the server where it is running is not exactly mine and it has some connection limits, so I don't want to cause any trouble. Also it is better that the request for weather info are going (in case of extension) from different IP addresses so they can't blacklist it.
Another reason is that I like programming in JS (extension) much more than PHP (the old way). And also I can make much more user-friendly options, thanks to "preferences" dialog.
Originally posted by theCharlesF:
It has other disadvantages besides that. Until (speeddial) extensions are synchronized, you'll have to manually set it up on each installation of Opera.
Originally posted by QuHno:
As you can see, I've already managed to create the Speed Dial ext. without Unite, but thx anyway
Thank you SO MUCH.
But why do you need to create an extension, to get what is already working so fine in the "old way"?
For instance, people running an older version of Opera won't be able to keep it.
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
May be the Speed Dial Weather Unite Application (direct link) is of help for that, at least the parser in it
(after install just type the city, may be as city+country if there is more than one with the same name, and add the output language. To get it into the speed dial, you can just copy the resulting URL to it. Multiple speed dials with different locations and languages are possible, as far as the Google API suppots it)
http://files.myopera.com/BS-Harou/files/Weather%20by%20Wunderground.oex
Seems to work great. Thx.
Originally posted by theCharlesF:
Agreed, I might be missing something but from the screenshots it seems that the others only display the weather for today?
Originally posted by BS-Harou:
Which one?
Your thumbnail was the only one that displayed the weather for the next few days!
We miss it!!!
Thanks BS-Harou
Originally posted by SATAB:
Когда я писал свое сообщение, Кривого Рога не было.
Так же как и Yandex Maps, Yandex Pogoda.
Originally posted by SATAB:
Interesting, thank you for info
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-speed-dial-enhancements/
Originally posted by Adonisali:
Hi, I was trying to do some mobile version, but there is plenty of problems. Firstly, you can set "reload interval" for speed dial windows, secondly there is very little space for the images so there might be only two of them. Thirdly, it's very hard to determine on mobile if the web page is loaded by speed dial or normally.
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