Last things fi)st:
How is stating that "the javascript files (which were coded by some one else)" in any way a negative remark? I was as clearly as possible stating that you were not, in any way, responsible for any javascript that purports to have anything to do with the forecast display. Beats me!
There are three javascript files in the "noaafct" folder. One is a probably modified, but normal "jquery.js" to enable some data building routines for later use. I suspected that I might find some use of the various noaa urls in there, but I was restricted to my iPhone, so investigation would have been very difficult, if not impossible. The second file is "highcharts.js' which some text from your template states is used to
generate the charts. The last file appears to be a way of using javascript to add methods of tabbing while building the charts. I have absolutely no javascript read skills and even less desire to learn anything about the language. That the forecasts and your template do not use javascript to download or display the forecast is great news, as far as I'm concerned. Thanks for that confirmation and correction to my understanding.
Next to last question: Back on April 12, 2016, I suggested that a WC user who stated; "I am working on the Leuven template. Still not the way I want it yet." try some of your 'stand-alone' script sets. Your reply <
Reply #8 on: April 13, 2016, 04:44:03 AM>:
[emphasis added]There will be no newly developed stand-alone scripts from me, and although the current stand-alone scripts are still available, the best way to go is to use the template to load the needed scripts in your own website. With one installation all available scripts can be used. If one does not want realtime data, there is no upload from WeatherCat needed.
Another example, you want to use the Davis console: upload of weather-data is necessary to get this:
http://www.weerstation-wilsele.be/index.php?p=console&lang=en&ipad
The green colors and box is CSS. One time change to fit into your website.
[emphasis added]Disadvantages when using stand-alone scripts:
1. Every script needs some, often the same settings, done in PHP
2. For every script the same CSS changes has to be made to blend the script in your own web-site
3. Every script needs to be maintained
And it is far easier to give support as the scripts inside your own website can be tested by me in your (hidden) template environment.
Perhaps you have made other posts stating your "continued support" for these 'stand-alone' scripts, I just have not seen them. Nor do I deduce that from the quoted statement above. That statement seems to saying in rather explicit terms that we should use your general, and improved, website template and
not the stand-alone parts. Perhaps I don't understand English enough to read your intentions into what I saw in that quoted statement you made on April 13. It would not be the first time I've misunderstood what someone said. I do apologize for my misunderstanding, if that is what happened.
Your list of "Disadvantages" seems to agree with my statement that I understand why you might not want to continue working on the 'stand-alone' scripts: "Every script needs to be maintained".
However, I much more appreciate your latest statement in reply #2 above.
Full support is available:
1. for the scripts running in Leuven-Template
2. for the scripts running in Saratoga-Template
3. for unchanged scripts running stand-alone.
That's plain enough even for me!
And great news, as far as I'm concerned, since that's exactly what I am doing.
As for looking in the javascript, which you so kindly pointed out is not at all involved, I quoted the text, which includes a link, that is in your template as the source or developer of some javascript [please refer to that quotation in my reply just before yours]. I did not have my computer available nor the file searching apps on it at the time of my reply. As I now have discovered, the link is simply to the "National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) Digital Weather Markup Language (DWML)
Generator" page at the weather.gov/xml/SOAP_server. I will endeavor to search for exactly how and where your template uses that info. Probably in your info on lines 600 - 1070 of the noaaDigitalGenerateHtml.php.
I've only recently returned home and was surprised to see myself being accused of being negative to a developer on a par with that of the WC developer. I think I have made my respect and appreciation of you evident in my various postings here and certainly in the few emails we've exchanged. I am deeply saddened that you would think I am even implying anything derogative toward you, sir.
I hope I have made the reasons for my statements and even misstatements clear and to your satisfaction.
Perhaps the admin(s) should simply remove/delete my reply that seems to have many ererz and is easily mis-understood. ![[banghead]](https://athena.trixology.com/Smileys/default/banghead.gif "Bang Head")
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