WeatherBlox

WeatherBlox is an elegant weather forecast application that can be embedded into a personal blog template or Web page, and displayed in any modern Web browser.

Laszlo Systems provides WeatherBlox free for experimentation and non-commercial use, to showcase Laszlo's platform for developing and deploying rich Internet applications. If you like WeatherBlox, please blog it and spread the good word about the Laszlo platform powering it. To take advantage of WeatherBlox, simply embed some tags in your HTML template. The source code behind WeatherBlox is freely available under the same terms as the Apache Open Source license.

Embedding WeatherBlox in your page

Embed WeatherBlox by copying two script tags into your HTML page or blog template, one in the page header, and one in the page body. View the html source of the following example pages to see the simplest embed setup for WeatherBlox:

WeatherBlox in a Web page

You may also view source on this blogspot page to see how the WeatherBlox on the right was embedded. Search for the string "<!-- weatherblox -->" to find the embed tags.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Client CPU requirements: Viewers of the WeatherBlox need a Web browser enabled with the Flash Player (version 5 or higher). Over 97% of deployed Web browsers meet this requirment.
• Embedding WeatherBlox with a specific ZipCode: You can setup WeatherBlox to automatically display the weather report for a specific U.S. ZipCode by adding a parameter to the URL string in the embed tag. View source on the following Web page to see how.
  
  WeatherBlox set to display data for zipcode 94107

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