Has anybody tries the new gadget download as advertised on the Met
Office site? Come on guinea pigs tell me if it's any good!

Pete L wrote:
Has anybody tries the new gadget download as advertised on the Met
Office site? Come on guinea pigs tell me if it's any good!

I downloaded the Vista one today. Seems OK - quicker than going to the
web site.
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Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL. http://sanday.org.uk/weather
Free weather station softwa http://sandaysoft.com/

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Pete L wrote:

Has anybody tries the new gadget download as advertised on the Met
Office site? Come on guinea pigs tell me if it's any good!

Just downloaded the Firefox gadget, but unfortunately my version of FF
is too new (2.0.0.10) and the gadget is for FF versions up to 2.0.0.9 so
it refuses to install. Hopefully the Met Office will catch up as
presumably most FF users will soon be upgraded to the newer version.

--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK http://pippin.co.uk
Registered as user #445000 with the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org

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Bob Cox wrote:

In article ,
Pete L wrote:

Has anybody tries the new gadget download as advertised on the Met
Office site? Come on guinea pigs tell me if it's any good!

Just downloaded the Firefox gadget, but unfortunately my version of FF
is too new (2.0.0.10) and the gadget is for FF versions up to 2.0.0.9 so
it refuses to install. Hopefully the Met Office will catch up as
presumably most FF users will soon be upgraded to the newer version.

Just successfully installed on an old Linux box running FF 2.0.0.8 and
it appears to work fine. It could be a very useful, er, gadget.

--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK http://pippin.co.uk
Registered as user #445000 with the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org

On Nov 22, 8:33 pm, Bob Cox wrote:
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Bob Cox wrote:
In article ,
Pete L wrote:

Has anybody tries the new gadget download as advertised on the Met
Office site? Come on guinea pigs tell me if it's any good!

Just downloaded the Firefox gadget, but unfortunately my version of FF
is too new (2.0.0.10) and the gadget is for FF versions up to 2.0.0.9 so
it refuses to install. Hopefully the Met Office will catch up as
presumably most FF users will soon be upgraded to the newer version.

Just successfully installed on an old Linux box running FF 2.0.0.8 and
it appears to work fine. It could be a very useful, er, gadget.

The use of Met Office weather gadgets is subject to our standard terms
and conditions. These Terms of Use may be changed by the Met Office at
any time without notice.

Met Office weather gadgets is a free service offered by Met Office for
personal and non-commercial use only.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...ets/index.html

Without going into my BBC rant mode -a subject well covered at The
Register at the moment by the way and betimes on Grocklaw, can anyone
aver that it is not going to encrapsulate my Internets in a most
chimpanzetic way?

Bob Cox wrote:

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Bob Cox wrote:

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, Pete
L wrote:

Has anybody tries the new gadget download as advertised on the Met
Office site? Come on guinea pigs tell me if it's any good!

Just downloaded the Firefox gadget, but unfortunately my version of FF
is too new (2.0.0.10) and the gadget is for FF versions up to 2.0.0.9 so
it refuses to install. Hopefully the Met Office will catch up as
presumably most FF users will soon be upgraded to the newer version.

Just successfully installed on an old Linux box running FF 2.0.0.8 and
it appears to work fine. It could be a very useful, er, gadget.


Same here apart from getting it to change the "my weather" location. Keep
getting b--- London whatever I select. I suspected something would go wrong
when I tried to follow the instructions and found that to be impossible.
Says to click "OK" to select the new location or "Cancel" to - er - cancel.
The only button available is "Close"!

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy.
"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money." [Chic Murray, 1919-85]

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Graham P Davis wrote:

Same here apart from getting it to change the "my weather" location. Keep
getting b--- London whatever I select. I suspected something would go wrong
when I tried to follow the instructions and found that to be impossible.
Says to click "OK" to select the new location or "Cancel" to - er - cancel.
The only button available is "Close"!

If you click to select the desired location, then click anywhere else on
the page and then press 'enter' it does seem to work. Not exactly
intuitive though ;-)

(I now realise that the newer version of FF (2.0.0.10) on my main box is
there only because I was a beta tester years ago and still get the new
releases early. So, to be fair to the Met Office, it is reasonable that
it works only with versions up to 2.0.0.9).

--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK http://pippin.co.uk
Registered as user #445000 with the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org

Bob Cox wrote:

In article ,
Graham P Davis wrote:

Same here apart from getting it to change the "my weather" location. Keep
getting b--- London whatever I select. I suspected something would go
wrong when I tried to follow the instructions and found that to be
impossible. Says to click "OK" to select the new location or "Cancel" to
- er - cancel. The only button available is "Close"!

If you click to select the desired location, then click anywhere else on
the page and then press 'enter' it does seem to work. Not exactly
intuitive though ;-)

Thanks, that's done the trick.


--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy.
"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money." [Chic Murray, 1919-85]

Bob Cox wrote:

In article ,
Graham P Davis wrote:

Same here apart from getting it to change the "my weather" location. Keep
getting b--- London whatever I select. I suspected something would go
wrong when I tried to follow the instructions and found that to be
impossible. Says to click "OK" to select the new location or "Cancel" to
- er - cancel. The only button available is "Close"!

If you click to select the desired location, then click anywhere else on
the page and then press 'enter' it does seem to work. Not exactly
intuitive though ;-)

(I now realise that the newer version of FF (2.0.0.10) on my main box is
there only because I was a beta tester years ago and still get the new
releases early. So, to be fair to the Met Office, it is reasonable that
it works only with versions up to 2.0.0.9).


2.0.0.10 has just been made available for OpenSUSE and, when I re-started
Firefox after the update, I was asked whether I wanted the latest version
of the Met Office plug-in. So I'm now on version 1.1 of the plug-in. The
bug in "my weather" is still there.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy.
"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money." [Chic Murray, 1919-85]

"Pete L" wrote in message
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Has anybody tries the new gadget download as advertised on the Met
Office site? Come on guinea pigs tell me if it's any good!

Works fine as a detached Vista gadget, the flyout needs a 'click to
activate' to use the buttons although there is no reminder. May be
related to the MS/Eolas patent nonsense and will be fixed in the April
2008 IE update ( preview avbl Dec 2007 ).

Tom