[horde] Services_Weather & METAR on portal page

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Rick Emery <rick at emery.homelinux.net>:

> Alexander Wirtz graciously sent me the next version of 
> Services_Weather (v1.3)
> for testing. Among other things, this version adds TAF (basically, forecast)
> information to the METAR data. It's going to be awesome for new/student
> pilots; speaking for myself, I find the raw TAF data nearly indecipherable,
> and this parses it to plain language.
>
> Anyway, I've been incorporating it into the METAR block on the portal 
> page (so
> far, I haven't found any bugs; *great* work, Alexander!), but user interface
> design is probably my weakest programming quality.
>
> So, I've posted some screenshots of what I have so far:
>
> http://home.cfl.rr.com/remery/hordeMetarTaf1.jpg
>
> http://home.cfl.rr.com/remery/hordeMetarTaf2.jpg

Looks good.

> Please take a look; any criticisms and suggestions will be gratefully 
> received.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rick
>
> P.S. Because it nearly doubles the size of the block and won't be useful to
> everybody, I've made the display of TAF information optional; it's a checkbox
> in the configuration block of the portal layout.

Good idea.

Jan.

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