[Search-l] Widgets

[Aerik Sylvan]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Mark (Markie) <newsmarkie at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> I know i havent been to active round here recently (been really busy, sorry
> :-( ) but one thing that i have noticed on the mailing lists that really
> interested me is the widgets ideas.  IMO these are really key things that,
> shouldnt :-p, be too hard to implement. Ive had a brief look at one of the
> widgets which i look for alot, which is weather (although i dont know why,
> it always seems to be rain :-p)
>
> NWS / NOAA provide an XML output of weather for all US cities and most
> international cities, and with it being a US gov org all its content is
> therefore PD and totally free to use and copy etc (not a lawyer though).
> this we could then implement easily using a JS call from the search var,
> with or without looking for a "weather: XXX" keyword and then output next to
> the search results, maybe below the adverts.  this could also be JS
> implemented to be hide able etc with more widgets....... the problem with
> NOAA IMO is that it requires calls to use lat/long co-ordinates for the
> calls, thus required more geo-location stuff which makes this harder and
> harder.
>

Hmm... couldn't you use a Google Maps API call (JS) to get the lat lang,
then call the NOAA feed?  I haven't looked at the NOAA feed at all, but...
Then we cache the lat/lang in a cookie or something, to avoid a gazillion
calls.  Might be a little tricky with pure javascript, if the NOAA feed is
only xml and not JSON, but...

Aerik

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