Rene, Thanks so much for posting.
I got the site up, using the iBegin weather widget on it's own. If it helps, here's a link: http://tinyurl.com/5n8mco I'll take a stab at doing what you suggest... wish me luck! :D But... expect to hear more questions from me soon. - John On Sep 6, 3:50 am, "Rene Veerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if the weather widget creates a javascript object in the js namespace, you > can test for that when the page has loaded. you can even try to > re-initialize the weather widget if it fails the first time (but that would > take some doing). > > you'd need to include the weather widget in the <head> of your target page. > and assume that the weather widget makes the global js var "weatherWidget" > available. > > you could try this; > <head> > <script language='JavaScript1.3' type='text/javascript' > src='http://somehost.com/widgets/weather_widget.js'></script> > <script language='JavaScript1.3' type='text/javascript'> > <!-- > window.onload = function () { > //call previous window.onload statements here > > var scriptSrc = 'http://somehost.com/widgets/weather_widget.js'; > if (!weatherWidget) { > var scriptsInHead = > $('script',document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0]); > var found = false; > for (var j=0; j<scriptsInHead.length && (!found); j++) { > if (scriptsInHead[j].src == scriptSrc) found = j; > } > var e = document.createElement("script"); > e.type="text/javascript"; > e.language='JavaScript'; > e.src = scriptSrc; > if (found===false) { > if (console) console.log ("appending "+e.src+" to HEAD."); > __htmlHead.appendChild(e); > } else { > if (console) console.log ("removing then re-adding "+e.src+" > to HEAD."); > scriptsInHead[found].parentNode.removeChild > (scriptsInHead[found]); > __htmlHead.appendChild (e); > } > } else { > //optional: > weatherWidget.initialize(); > } > setTimeout (window.onload, 300); //retry in 300 milliseconds > } > --> > </script> > </head>
