Millikin's Toolbar Weather Icon (AJAX)

Everyone seems to want to have the weather available to them at all times.  But rather than wasting a lot of screen real-estate with a forecast, radar, etc., we wrote a nifty little AJAX page that will allow us to put the info on our toolbar.

The information for the current conditions is pulled from the National Weather Service XML feed (see: http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KDEC.xml for us.)

By making an AJAX call to ..../weather.jsp?display=icon , we can place an icon of the current conditions on our toolbar.  If the user hovers over the icon, it will give them a brief overview.

 By clicking on the icon, it will make another AJAX call to ..../weather.jsp?display=full .  This will populate an ibox with the returned content, a full overview of the current conditions, the current NWS radar map (which is a composite of several images overlayed on top of each other,) as well as a link to the full 7-day forecast.

Â