{"id":308,"date":"2013-04-13T01:46:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T05:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2018-07-13T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:43:31","slug":"nws-radar-images-should-stop-using-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/nws-radar-images-should-stop-using-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"NWS radar images should stop using Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/weather-map.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-314\" alt=\"weather-map\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/weather-map.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>To be more accessible, I don&#8217;t think it would be that difficult to replace their existing system with one that just uses layered animated gifs with transparency. Even if you had to store a different gif for the different speeds that the radar data can playback, it at least allows for a short period of static file caching and allows for the full website experience on a mobile device. Don&#8217;t want to pre-generate the gifs of the radar data? OK. Instead use javascript to generate <a title=\"client-side gif\" href=\"http:\/\/emergent.unpythonic.net\/software\/01126462511-glif\" target=\"_blank\">client-side gifs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.weather.gov\/radar.php?rid=gyx&amp;product=N0R&amp;overlay=11101111&amp;loop=no\">NWS radar image from Portland, ME<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be more accessible, I don&#8217;t think it would be that difficult to replace their existing system with one that just uses layered animated gifs with transparency. Even if you had to store a different gif for the different speeds that the radar data can playback, it at least allows for a short period of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}