touchtheSky
touchtheSky is the premier realtime weather widget for Opera, featuring live updates, forecasts, satellite images, atmospheric data, and more.
Description
touchtheSky is back, shinier and slicker than ever. Recoded with jQuery for improved compatibility, updated for Opera 11 and brought into line with the latest style guidelines.
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touchtheSky is the premier weather widget on the Opera platform.
New in v2.0
Compatibility fixes for Opera 11.60.
Skinning support disabled as graphics undergo changes behind the scenes
Also featuring:
International coverage - just type your town name and search
Live data updated every half-hour from Accuweather.com
Temperature
Windspeed
Satellite images
Air quality, including humidity, pollen levels, and UV levels
Moon phases
5-day forecast
Mini mode - always have it available in the corner of your screen!
Metric or US units
Actual temperature or AccuWeather RealFeel
Switchable skins, conforming to Opera Style guidelines
Animations can be disabled for slower CPUs
Automatic notification when software updates are available
Data officially licensed from AccuWeather - thanks to all at AccuWeather for their help and support! Developed in fully-valid XHTML and CSS.
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Comments (20 on the original page, latest shown)
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Works with Opera 9 to Opera 12.
About this widget
| Downloads | 2,067,457 |
|---|---|
| Category | Weather |
| Version | 2.5 |
| Size | 567KB |
| Last update | December 23, 2011 |
| Devices | desktop |
| Original page | Internet Archive |
The satellite pics will be back in the version waiting to be approved. The pics are being served from a different web server than the rest of the content, and this needs to be built into the security policy. When Accuweather change the server name, the first I know about it is when the pics fail!
Perfect, thanks
It doesn`t retrieve the correct sunrise/sunset time. Take a look: http://my.opera.com/ng14/albums/showpic.dml?album=5624892&picture=91652542
I can only display the information as provided to me by AccuWeather - I can't detect if that's different to what's shown on their site. Thankfully it only seems to be a matter of a few minutes, had visions of it being a few hours!
I believe it retrieves the information for single day and duplicates it for all the other days in the detailed forecast. http://my.opera.com/ng14/albums/showpic.dml?album=5624892&picture=91866662 In my example it takes the info for +1 day from today. In my previous example I have no idea where it took the information from - I couldn`t find such sunrise/sunset times for my location in the site.
Got it - you're absolutely right. There's a rogue "s" in there that must have crept in when I moved to using jQuery, so it's retrieving the first "sunrise" in all the "days" instead of in that "day". Will be fixed in the next version.
Great
Hi, I'm trying to do some widget ajax magic with jQuery but my calls keep failing with a No Transport error. Is there some trick you pulled to get it working?
Got rid of Oslo today when I had been trying for two days. Put in Raymond [my town] in MS, and left off the state, then I ran search, which brought up 8 to 10 towns named Raymond which had the state after Raymond. I clicked on my town which had MS. It picked it up, I then clicked on the little wheel and a miracle took place, Oslo was replaced by Raymond, MS and I received my weather just checked its still working, put its Icon on my desktop. David
Got this widget from one of my friends and love the wedding edition.
This is the best most light weight weather widget if you are an American. Unfortunately a simple search for the term weather does not turn it up and you have to dig for it if you do not remember the name. What is with that? Is opera mad at you?
Unfortunately, it doesn't (yet) work together with Opera 11.60 Beta (here: Build 1150). The widget permanently shows "Loading...". Process Explorer indicates only two local TCP/IP connections after startup, that's it. With Opera 11.50 everything was OK.
Не работает в 11.60, в 11.52 работает Not working at Opera 11.60, at Opera 11.52 all ok Заколебало, что виджеты никто не поддерживает. Найдешь хороший виджет, пользуешься и при каждой обнове Оперы постоянно что-то начинает работать не так А поддержки нет
Confirmed that it doesn`t work on 11.60 - clean installation. Unfortunately it seems that the widget is not updated for a long time.
Figures. I've been looking for a good, comprehensive weather widget for a while now, and this one looks like the winner. Of course it doesn't work with 11.60.
It seems the uploader has fixed it but the new version is not updated yet http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1202502
The new version (2.5) with Opera 11.60 compatibility is uploaded now.
In the new version (2.5) possibility of change of color of a background (aka skin) has disappeared In the new version (2.5) the control panel the widget at change of the form from a strip on a small rectangle remains on the same place as though the size the widget didn't change
Just a little tip for upgraders (to version 2.5)... As you can read in the history, skins are not supported at the moment. However, a "shadow skin" could occur. This seems to be a problem of version 2.5 handling skin settings from previous versions. Right now there isn't a user interface option to reset the skin to "plain". But you can edit the preferences file to do so: 1. Quit touchtheSky. 2. Open the following file for editing (here: Win 7): c:\Users\\AppData\Local\Opera\Widget touchtheSky\widgets\wuid-4ec62662-3e4e-034b-0d95-7aff3efc7521\prefs.dat (Maybe the long ID varies.) 3. Change the value for the skin setting to "plain" (without quotation marks): plain 4. Save the file. 5. Start touchtheSky again.
Very good ratio of UX, beauty and weather data.