can't find a way to change fahrenheit to celsius
append ?u=metric to the URL
ASCII Art Weather
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Re: ASCII Art Weather
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny thing is, it aligns properly in the terminal (cygwin here) http://imgur.com/LicBeh3
Yeah, because it's not showing the diagonal arrows.
If you have a font that supports proper monospaced unicode, it works:
http://cl.ly/2f410i1k270D
Re: ASCII Art Weather
#73We were unable to find your location, so we have brought you to Oymyakon, one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet. >Freezing fog Don't want to know more about this place.
Any idea how to specify a location, I tried the site on a few different browsers and some are correct and others are not. I suppose some browsers are blocking its means for determining the location. edit Looks like the issue is caused by some browsers/settings that hide the public ip prevent it from finding location.. would be nice to specify, i like the page.
Enter your Zip code after the URL (if you're in the U.S.) --
Re: ASCII Art Weather
#74wttr.in/Cambridge looks completely wrong. Says Cambridge, UK at the top, but -2°C and heavy snow? Really? EDIT: looks like it's using http://www.worldweatheronline.com/cambridge-weather/scottish... rather than the one in East Anglia
Use a postcode instead: http://wttr.in/cb1
Or lat/long: http://wttr.in/52.1988,0.0850
Re: ASCII Art Weather
#75I'm in Oxford, Ohio. Thinks I'm in Oxford, England.
(Not criticizing, just amused.)
Re: ASCII Art Weather
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could be argued that you don't need an ascii icon for "sunny", etc.
Just one codepoint would do! Basic weather symbols like SUN (U+2600) and RAIN (U+2614) have been in Unicode since 1993. More detailed 'emoji' have been added in recent years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols [2] i.e. http://emojipedia.org/fog/ etc
Ok, but then it's not ASCII art; it would be Unicode art.
Re: ASCII Art Weather
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any idea how to specify a location, I tried the site on a few different browsers and some are correct and others are not. I suppose some browsers are blocking its means for determining the location. edit Looks like the issue is caused by some browsers/settings that hide the public ip prevent it from finding location.. would be nice to specify, i like the page.
Enter your Zip code after the URL (if you're in the U.S.) -- http://wttr.in/65201
It also supports UK postcodes[1], Canadian postal codes[2], and lat/long coordinates[3]
Re: ASCII Art Weather
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just one codepoint would do! Basic weather symbols like SUN (U+2600) and RAIN (U+2614) have been in Unicode since 1993. More detailed 'emoji' have been added in recent years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols [2] i.e. http://emojipedia.org/fog/ etc
the CLI application[1] that this is based on has an "emoji" frontend[2] that does just that 1: https://github.com/schachmat/wego 2: http://cl.ly/1w3b45242k3R
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Re: ASCII Art Weather
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try looking at the source of the page. There's no way in hell anyone would call that "just" the data necessary to convey the information. The site is also unusable on mobile, because ASCII art unlike proper semantic HTML is not easily rescalable by the browser. And it's inaccessible by users relying on screen readers, ironically because of all the ASCII cruft.
FYI: It scaled perfectly fine on my Android/Galaxy S5 so while it's scalable, I can't comment on how "easily scalable" it is nor if screen readers would have a problem. I would think screen readers would have no impact. Text is pretty much text (utf8, etc...) and the scaling is handled by your font choice not your text choice. ^^shrug^^
ASCII art is not scalable when you mix it with text like on this site since scaling the art will also make the text unreadably small.
Screen readers depends on the semantics as defined in HTML to recognize what to read. In this case when you use text to define the 'layout' of the page, screen readers loses the ability to differentiate between content and presentation. This is also one of the reasons why using tables for layout is a bad idea.
Re: ASCII Art Weather
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try looking at the source of the page. There's no way in hell anyone would call that "just" the data necessary to convey the information. The site is also unusable on mobile, because ASCII art unlike proper semantic HTML is not easily rescalable by the browser. And it's inaccessible by users relying on screen readers, ironically because of all the ASCII cruft.
>The site is also unusable on mobile, because ASCII art unlike proper semantic HTML is not easily rescalable by the browser. And it's inaccessible by users relying on screen readers, ironically because of all the ASCII cruft. As web developers, we're used to "everyone" being the audience, but that's not the case here. As a stylized visual representation of the weather, it's fine. I dig it. Making sure something is ac…
Oh, I agree that this is really cool in terms of aesthetics.
I'm pointing out that the grandparent's comment about this being minimalistic, and comparing it to real weather apps as being absurd. If you're building a toy project aimed solely at programmers on desktop, there's a lot of things you don't have to care about. Some of those things are exactly the 'bloat' the grandparent has been complaining about.