For those who are html-savvy, it probably is much more flexible and allows for quick re-do’s when you have changes in what you wish to present.
for those who are still learning to walk in the web page implementation, your program offers a way to take a new product, view the clear documentation and excellent examples, and hand hold us through to a professional appearing product in the space of 1/2 hour.
For that reason, IF there isn’t too much fiddling around, being able to offer this as a reasonable option, keep it in mind as you begin to run out of things to do! :javascript:emoticon(‘
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Just an observation about some of the javascript stuff for the other lightning programs:
A local enthusiast has his page ofweather, timelapse web cam images, National Weather Service radar, and his own Boltek station on a web page, see
http://www.lorick.net
for an example.
One thing I’ve noticed about these programs is that they seem to behave vastly differently on different computers/operating systems.
For example, I have viewed his lightning web page using both the Nexstorm and Nexstorm Java and have seen two results. The Windows XP systems seem to handle the Java for well, but Win 2000 based systems flash and flicker the screen so much and interrupt background tasks to a degree that I’ve stopped using it.
Perhaps this represents progress and that the Win2000 system should be turned into XP, but there are certain PCI cards and scanners that will not run under XP, so I’m stuck. I would hope that any web site software would run smoothly on the receiving user’s machine, and so far this older one doesn’t like Nexstorm’s very professional appearing display.
Right now I’m using Lightning 2000 by Aninoquisi and have been pleased with the local display it offers. Since I’ve purchased this one, and the author continues to update it, I’d hate to abandon it to buy the (relatively expensive) NexStorm just to add a local lightning display to my weather web.
You know, perhaps this will be a challenge to me to finally get off my duff and do more with web page design, but for now I’m very happy with the solution you’ve offered to me to get these data on a viewable page.
Thanks again for all your work. Despite all these little quibbles, it is a very stable, wonderfully designed and appearing piece of software.
PS. If you come up with something that needs a few users to play with implementation and interface with various computer variations, let me know when the Beta needs another evaluation and I’d be happy to give it a whirl.
Dale