Weather Module Added
Allowing users to add different weather information to their profiles was one of the feature I suggested early on in the project.
This has now been implemented using Yahoo! Weather’s API service and PHP Class “weather” by Matt Brown. This allows developers to access Yahoo! Weather services and pull information back into their own applications and easily customise the layout and design.
The only problems encountered with the implementation where the transparent weather icons in PNG format didn’t render properly in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (the problem didn’t effect IE7 as Microsoft new version of IE has partial support for PNGs) as shown in the image below.
This was fixed by using a CSS hack, this involved putting each of the transparent PNG icons into a div and setting the icon as a background image for that div layer. Then using a special filter command to trick IE6 to render the images correctly.