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Functional Simple Web Design by cogdogblog
posted 27 Nov ’08, 11.00pm MST PST on flickr
No frills, but in zero clicks, goingtorain.com/ gives you your local weather forecast (detects location via IP address).
Maybe it is the start of some new minimalistic zen of web design…
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Interesting idea, needs a little tuning as it reading my ISP’s location i.e. London when I live in Wales.
However I would be concerned if someone could tell where i’m from just from visiting a website mind, those other than ISP’s and legal bodies.
@Gareth: It’s been true for I think as long as the web has been around, that every request you make to a web server to get content, tells that server in HTTP header (the package of information sent to the web server) what your IP address is- which is not your address really, but where your IP is generated by your web host.
10 years ago when I started looking at this information on my web server, I was stumped why so many of my visitors were from Virginia– til I realized that was the home of AOL.
The number of these users has plummeted ;-)
Here’s another good example of a minimalist zen design applied to search:
http://keyboardr.com/
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