Weather Data

[Eric]

Either I'm blind or my computer's playing games with me, because I still can't see any white edges around the icons! 

[WeatherWitness]

Either I'm blind or my computer's playing games with me, because I still can't see any white edges around the icons! 

As I said before, they're not that noticeable. I'm just being very picky (sorry), and since we have clearer icons, why not use them. Martin, if you don't get the icons from Tyler, I'll be happy to e-mail them to you! Thanks for the consideration of this request.

[phw115wvwx]

Either I'm blind or my computer's playing games with me, because I still can't see any white edges around the icons! 

I can assure you that they are there.  It's just a white edge running all the way around the icons, which does show up against the light blue background.  It's not too big a deal as Andy said, but if Tyler and Martin want to make them better, that's perfectly fine with me.

[TWCToday]

I can barely see it. Since the icons on my computer have no such white border I am lead to believe its part of the badge creation process. In which there isn't much we can do. Ill try one other icon from these clearer ones when someone sends them to me and try it out

[wxntrafficfan]

Nice idea Martin, I like how you put a white background behind the weather mods. I was seeing the white halo, but not always.

[Zach]

I can barely see it. Since the icons on my computer have no such white border I am lead to believe its part of the badge creation process. In which there isn't much we can do. Ill try one other icon from these clearer ones when someone sends them to me and try it out

I went ahead and sent them to your Gmail.

Btw, I'm on my desktop now and I can't even see the white edges, it's just on my laptops in which I see them.

[WeatherWitness]

Nice idea Martin, I like how you put a white background behind the weather mods. I was seeing the white halo, but not always.

Not to be rude, but what the heck are you and Martin talking about?

Martin, I apologize for being busy this weekend and today; I haven't been able to give you clearer icons yet.

I just think there is a difference between this: and this:

[TWCToday]

Nice idea Martin, I like how you put a white background behind the weather mods. I was seeing the white halo, but not always.

Not to be rude, but what the heck are you and Martin talking about?

I don't know what he is talking about. What I am talking about is the fact the images I have DO NOT have the white border on them. The white border shows up when the weather badge (the thing under your username) is created. To prove this point, here is your image you provided above with the old one. (I temporarily changed the partly cloudy icon because nobody had mostly cloudy as a CC anymore). As you can see, yes your icon is clearer but the white frame remains.

[Tyler]

I can easily do that. What size do you need them?

[TWCToday]

I can easily do that. What size do you need them?

If you could get them to 52x52 that would be great!

[Eric]

Nice idea Martin, I like how you put a white background behind the weather mods. I was seeing the white halo, but not always.

Not to be rude, but what the heck are you and Martin talking about?

I don't know what he is talking about. What I am talking about is the fact the images I have DO NOT have the white border on them. The white border shows up when the weather badge (the thing under your username) is created. To prove this point, here is your image you provided above with the old one. (I temporarily changed the partly cloudy icon because nobody had mostly cloudy as a CC anymore). As you can see, yes your icon is clearer but the white frame remains.

I prefer the top version - the moon is more visible.

[wxntrafficfan]

Not to be rude myself, but you guys kind of were being so. I did see a white box around the mods yesterday... but it may have been since I was using my dad's laptop, which is from the early days of laptops, and has IE 5.

[TWCToday]

Not to be rude myself, but you guys kind of were being so. I did see a white box around the mods yesterday... but it may have been since I was using my dad's laptop, which is from the early days of laptops, and has IE 5.

Did you read anything that was posted above 

[Jonathan]

The icons in the weather data are forced to be in the GIF format...which don't support alpha blending. (That means that some pixels may be more transparent than others. Alpha blending is found in PNG.) In GIF, you can have white borders or jagged, ugly edges. There are examples attached below. Which one looks better?

Martin can't help this, unless he wants to put up with a huge mess of coding. The weather data system that converts everything into the images you see here downconverts any icons into GIF format, as with the text (it's not anti-aliased). It really can't be helped easily, unless we have someone here who is good with coding with images.

[jtmal0723]

Here's something you can play with and test, if you feel... These are the icons from the Beautiful Widgets app for Android... I'm unsure how they would convert in to gif, but why not, lol.... Some are actual forecast icons, some are current condition icons...

Chance of Snow:


Chance of Snow (night):


Chance of Storm:


Chance of Storm (night)


Cloudy:


Cloudy/Rain:


Cloudy/Rain (night):


Flurries:


Fog:


Haze:


Icy/Rain:


Light Rain:


Mostly Cloudy:


Mostly Cloudy (night):


Mostly Sunny:


Mostly Sunny (night):


Rain:


Snow:


Storm:


Sunny:


Sunny (night):