Anyone seen the "new" weather style of the BBC forecasts?

Very 2 dimensional. The ITV messed around with a much more interesting
format last year.

And to cap it all they still send the bloody fools up on the damned
roof. What is that gasometer thing?


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"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
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Very 2 dimensional. The ITV messed around with a much more interesting
format last year.

I see the weather style has changed on here too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/e...pressure.shtml

Small as ever and crap in the way as per normal BBC.

Why does the date have to be superimposed on the image when there is any
amount of room on the page for that sort of thing?



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On Mon, 16 May 2005 06:13:14 +0000 (UTC), Michael Mcneil wrote:

Why does the date have to be superimposed on the image when there is
any amount of room on the page for that sort of thing?

So that when you use the animation feature you know the date/time you
are viewing without having to reload the whole page. All that changes
is the displayed image.

You might not have realised that there are animation buttons though,
the top 1/4 of the standard rewind forward stop play buttons is hacked
off in my browser.

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On Mon, 16 May 2005 06:13:14 +0000 (UTC), Michael Mcneil wrote:

Why does the date have to be superimposed on the image when there is
any amount of room on the page for that sort of thing?

So that when you use the animation feature you know the date/time you
are viewing without having to reload the whole page. All that changes
is the displayed image.

You might not have realised that there are animation buttons though,
the top 1/4 of the standard rewind forward stop play buttons is hacked
off in my browser.

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail

On Mon, 16 May 2005 06:13:14 +0000 (UTC), Michael Mcneil wrote:

Why does the date have to be superimposed on the image when there is
any amount of room on the page for that sort of thing?

So that when you use the animation feature you know the date/time you
are viewing without having to reload the whole page. All that changes
is the displayed image.

You might not have realised that there are animation buttons though,
the top 1/4 of the standard rewind forward stop play buttons is hacked
off in my browser.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
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Very 2 dimensional. The ITV messed around with a much more interesting
format last year.

I see the weather style has changed on here too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/e...pressure.shtml

Small as ever and crap in the way as per normal BBC.

Why does the date have to be superimposed on the image when there is any
amount of room on the page for that sort of thing?



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"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
news:ec5411d60bf72a68de23ab177ce46216.45219@mygate .mailgate.org

Very 2 dimensional. The ITV messed around with a much more interesting
format last year.

I see the weather style has changed on here too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/e...pressure.shtml

Small as ever and crap in the way as per normal BBC.

Why does the date have to be superimposed on the image when there is any
amount of room on the page for that sort of thing?



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Michael Mcneil wrote:
Anyone seen the "new" weather style of the BBC forecasts?

Very 2 dimensional. The ITV messed around with a much more interesting
format last year.

Unfortunately, their website no longer works with Firefox. As I can't
yet install Internet Explorer on Linux, I am now unable to view any of
the BBCs online weather content. So much for being brought up to the
"21st century".

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Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/

Jonathan Stott wrote:

Unfortunately, their website no longer works with Firefox. As I can't
yet install Internet Explorer on Linux, I am now unable to view any of
the BBCs online weather content. So much for being brought up to the
"21st century".


What part doesn't work for you Jonathan? Seems ok here using FF 1.0.4 on
Gentoo Linux...

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Chris wrote:
Jonathan Stott wrote:

Unfortunately, their website no longer works with Firefox. As I can't
yet install Internet Explorer on Linux, I am now unable to view any of
the BBCs online weather content. So much for being brought up to the
"21st century".
What part doesn't work for you Jonathan? Seems ok here using FF 1.0.4 on
Gentoo Linux...

Yeah, so I see after restarting Firefox.

However, a few accessibility problems - if you have your font size
increased slightly, then the placename labels don't appear in the right
place (try increasing the font size on the UK map - you can get
Birmingham almost into East Anglia!).

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