Cumulus Support

That's possible, but there are other issues too - FF doesn't see all the properties of the gauges that Chrome does!

Well I think I miss more in Chrome as in FFox in http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/gaugesA/gauges2.htm

Ah, ignore the gauges2.htm page - the http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/gaugesA/gauges.htm page is the 'proper' page.

Even with the lates url I don't see more with Chrome (no values in the windspeed this is also in FFox) cloudbase doesn't work in both browsers for me.

Odd, works fine for me. It is a work in progress though so I sometimes upload versions that break and then fix them again within 10/15mins (hopefully!)

mcrossley wrote: The original page works fine in Chrome though - I'll have to start using IE for some dev work

Mark, why bother trying to make the gauges work with Microsoft Internet Explorer when Microsoft cannot even be bothered respecting the HTML 4 and HTML 5 standards as accepted by (almost) all the other good quality browsers... [link removed]

gemini06720 wrote: Mark, why bother trying to make the gauges work with Microsoft Internet Explorer when Microsoft cannot even be bothered respecting the HTML 4 and HTML 5 standards as accepted by (almost) all the other good quality browsers...

Is this also true for IE9?

nking wrote:Is this also true for IE9?

Yes, still... Microsoft is still far off the HTML 5 standards and they keep delaying their full incorporation into Internet Explorer 9 only stating that they are having difficulties implementing the HTML 5 standards ... Had Microsoft started accepting and implementing the HTML standards in earlier version they might not have the so-called problems they say they are having...

This is weird, FF was failing on the main page because it is downloading old versions of some of the XML gauge files from the other day. I can fix it by loading the XML directly by URL in FF, the 'old' version is displayed, then shift-refresh and the current version is displayed. Doing this for all the stale versions means that the main gauge page then displays OK.

Chrome and IE both download the new versions no problems without having to do anything.

What is weirder is that this evening is the first time I installed FF on this laptop, so there is no stale local cache.

I'm about to give up on the Bindows Gauges.
http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/gaugesA/gauges.htm
Seems to work fine in Chrome & FF, but IE is a disaster, on two of my machines it doesn't render the gauges at all, on the last one it renders some of them properly and not others - unless anyone can spot anything obviously wrong?

But some of my copies of IE will no longer the Bindows Gauge 'devl' applet either, but they did before! And chrome wouldn't run the dev applet before, but now it does.

Chrome renders the gauges noticeably faster than FF, and MUCH faster than IE.

Just checked yours in IE on my machine (Windows 7 Ultimate) and ALL the gauges appear on top of one another in the top left corner?

As you say, in FF they work perfectly

I think I have figured out what was going wrong in IE (my poor code, making shortcuts into the DOM structure that IE didn't like). So this test page now runs under Chrome/FF/IE7, but is very slow under IE (fastest is Chrome)
http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/gaugesA/gauges.htm

The animations a bit heavy on cpu

Must admit, those bindows graphics don't enthuse me - but I've always been a "Ah - but ..."

I think the bindows gauges are great (the wind gauge has some troubles in iE9)

nitrx wrote:(the wind gauge has some troubles in iE9)

I've been fiddling again! The avg/gust sectors do not update, if I put the code in to update them it works in Chrome/FF, but I get a fatal error in IE I've left it so it updates properly in Chrome/FF for now