Comment by xd1936
9 hours ago
Maybe if the UX was nicer, you wouldn't need to write scrapers and parsers and could just use their site.
9 hours ago
Maybe if the UX was nicer, you wouldn't need to write scrapers and parsers and could just use their site.
We don't need a bloated React framework to show a plaintext file with the fuel tank levels. It's NOAA, not Microsoft.
> We don't need a bloated React framework
Could have stopped there for 99% of websites
They're scraping to automatically update the wallpaper on their desktop. That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX.
"That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX."
Actually, I used to have a live-updating website AS MY BACKGROUND. Windows 98 and Me, website used AJAX and Comet to make it happen.
You used to be able to set websites as your desktop background.
I'm sure that was 100% secure, too. /s (I did the same thing back then.)