Belgian Weather Forecast

Widget insluiten

Widget insluiten

Widget properties
Instructions for use	To browse to the forecast of the next or the previous day, click the or the buttons.
	You can add this widget to your personalised iGoogle page or you can embed it in a webpage or blog message. This widget's homepage in the Google gadget directory can be foundhere.
Personalisation	Ask us to replace our logo at the bottom of the widget with your logo and link message. You can put this personalised widget on your website or blog and you can even initiate the viral spread of it in order to have your company logo and message displayed on multiple sites.
Technical info	A server application initiates a webcrawler that goes online and makes a daily copy of the weather forecast data as it is being published by the BDB, both in Dutch and in French. Also, another automatic server process takes care of the transformation of the html page originally composed as a complex html table gets into a universally usable dataformat, XML. On the widget's frontside, on the 'onDomComplete' event of the widget, a JavaScript process builds the HTML structure of the widget and fetches the data from the server by executing asynchronous HTTP calls (AJAX). Finally, this XML object is getting looped through and the data is injected into the HTML code. The 'next' and 'previous' buttons execute yet another JavaScript function on their 'onClick' event and hide the currently displayed forecast and make the widget display the forecast for the next or the previous day.
Server Technology
Widget Technology
Sources of the Data	De Bodemkundige Dienst van België vzw
The Widgetbox	This widget is also available on 'widgetbox' from where you can easily get the code for publication on Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc