Tuesday, August 17, 2004
About the Laszlo WeatherBlox
WeatherBlox is an elegant weather forecast application that can be embedded into a personal blog template or Web page, and displayed in any modern Web browser.
Laszlo Systems provides WeatherBlox free for experimentation and non-commercial use, to showcase Laszlo's platform for developing and deploying rich Internet applications. If you like WeatherBlox, please blog it and spread the good word about the Laszlo platform powering it. To take advantage of WeatherBlox, simply embed some tags in your HTML template. The source code behind WeatherBlox is freely available under the same terms as the Apache Open Source license.
Embedding WeatherBlox in your blog or web page
Embed WeatherBlox by copying two script tags into your HTML page or blog template, one in the page header, and one in the page body. View the html source of the following example pages to see the simplest embed setup for WeatherBlox:
WeatherBlox in a Web page
You may also view source on this blogspot page to see how the WeatherBlox on the right was embedded. Search for the string "<!-- weatherblox -->" to find the embed tags.
FAQ
Need Help? Visit the BlogBox Support Forum
Please send feedback to WeatherBlox Feedback
About The BlogBox Project: WeatherBlox is part of a series of BlogBoxes that provide rich Internet functionality for bloggers while showcasing the merits of Laszlo's declarative XML development approach. Application code in this series is available under an Apache-style open source license.
Laszlo Systems provides WeatherBlox free for experimentation and non-commercial use, to showcase Laszlo's platform for developing and deploying rich Internet applications. If you like WeatherBlox, please blog it and spread the good word about the Laszlo platform powering it. To take advantage of WeatherBlox, simply embed some tags in your HTML template. The source code behind WeatherBlox is freely available under the same terms as the Apache Open Source license.
Embedding WeatherBlox in your blog or web page
Embed WeatherBlox by copying two script tags into your HTML page or blog template, one in the page header, and one in the page body. View the html source of the following example pages to see the simplest embed setup for WeatherBlox:
WeatherBlox in a Web page
You may also view source on this blogspot page to see how the WeatherBlox on the right was embedded. Search for the string "<!-- weatherblox -->" to find the embed tags.
FAQ
- Client CPU requirements: Viewers of the WeatherBlox need a Web browser enabled with the Flash Player (version 5 or higher). Over 97% of deployed Web browsers meet this requirment.
- Embedding WeatherBlox with a specific ZipCode: You can setup WeatherBlox to automatically display the weather report for a specific U.S. ZipCode by adding a parameter to the URL string in the embed tag. View source on the following Web page to see how.
WeatherBlox set to automatically provide the weather for zip code 94107
Need Help? Visit the BlogBox Support Forum
Please send feedback to WeatherBlox Feedback
About The BlogBox Project: WeatherBlox is part of a series of BlogBoxes that provide rich Internet functionality for bloggers while showcasing the merits of Laszlo's declarative XML development approach. Application code in this series is available under an Apache-style open source license.
