Changes to metservice site

[jamie]

Found the problem... metservice doesnt work very well with the latest IE. Yet another reason to stick with Fire Fox. BUT atleast IE has a little button you can click if a site are not working and it reverts back to the old model and the site works fine. I really should move all my favourites from IE to FF because i hate IE. That way i wouldnt have such problems.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Found the problem... metservice doesnt work very well with the latest IE. Yet another reason to stick with Fire Fox. BUT atleast IE has a little button you can click if a site are not working and it reverts back to the old model and the site works fine. I really should move all my favourites from IE to FF because i hate IE. That way i wouldnt have such problems.

Yes the latest IE dosen't work well with the MS site as I found it. I was going to mention the little button to revert back to the old model, but you have obviously found it.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Vertigo]

i must point out that the only reason that little button is there is because earlier versions of internet explorer did not adhere to web coding standards, and lazy developers coded their websites specifically for these browsers. with IE8, MS is finally trying to use the html and css standards that browsers such as firefox and opera had been using for years and years. dont be suprised if websites start looking strange from now on if you use a lower version than IE8.

[Storm Struck]

I am really enjoying the longrange forecast on MS considering it hasnt been updated in two days .
Says it was last updated on Tuesday 7th April which is tomorrow , plus the forecast hasnt moved from the weekdays on there.
Some parts of MS are good, but this is abit rediculous considering this is New Zealands main weather service provider.
Cheers
Jason.

[Vertigo]

you could always send them a bug report, chances are they dont know about it.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes, Jason, I noticed that yesterday.
I was going to post about it but never got around to doingit

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Chris Raine]

Actually I cannot get into the 10 day rural forecast now on IE . The computer locks up every time and I have have to close IE thgrough the task manager to get IE going again. Fire fox works Ok though

[jamie]

Why should we have to tell them of an error. My part time job requires me to be updating web sites all throughout the night. It is just commonsense to check if things are uploading properly. If there is an issue i fix it right away because we are providing a service for people (which is free). They should be having people checking the site... Its patheticly easy!!!!

[David]

I find the 3 day rain forecast page is screwed up sometimes, other than that everything else seems okay...

[Vertigo]

Why should we have to tell them of an error. My part time job requires me to be updating web sites all throughout the night. It is just commonsense to check if things are uploading properly. If there is an issue i fix it right away because we are providing a service for people (which is free). They should be having people checking the site... Its patheticly easy!!!!

and im a full time web developer not wanting to get into an arguement over it, but i know id appreciate some constructive feedback if a particular section of a website is doing odd things. you can test a hundred times, but still not catch that small bug that sneaks in.

[Razor]

I've pretty much stopped using the metservice site. It never loads properly and is immensely frustrating

[Manukau heads obs]

constructive criticsm is what is needed

[David]

Good to see that each new hourly radar update is available on the site a couple of minutes past the hour now instead of around 15 minutes after the hour

[gllitz]

Good to see that each new hourly radar update is available on the site a couple of minutes past the hour now instead of around 15 minutes after the hour

Here, here!

EDIT: or should it be..."Hear, hear!"