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14 Jun 2002

It’s not an XML weather feed, but a someone sent a link to some JavaScript on Yahoo that returns the weather for any zip code. If you put this in your Web page:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://data.geo.yahoo.com/geo/v1?w=f,95670,10001&hbc=ffffff&hfc=314584
&hff=Verdana&hfs=2&ibc=FFFFFF
&ifc=0000ff&iff=Verdana&ifs=1&
amp;udd=1&ufc=000000&uff=Verdana
&ufs=2&ct=us&tz=UV&
ts=996800400"></script>

What gets displayed is

Just change the 95670,10001 to any zip codes you want. By playing with the JavaScript URL, we’ve also found some other options that can be set.

hbc: Header Background Color
hfc: Header Font Color
hfs: Header Font Size
hff: Header Font Face
ibc: body Background Color (what does I stand for?)
ifc: body Font Color
ifs: body Font Size
iff: body Font Face

It is unknown what the rest of the variables mean. Changing things from udd and beyond had no obvious affect.

While we’d love to give credit where credit’s due, the contributor neglected to sign their email.

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