Each summer Horizons Regional Council monitors water quality at various locations. They display the result as ‘green’, ‘orange' or ‘red’ for whether or not you can swim there. I want the number of E.Coli though. Getting it means scrolling, clicking, hovering and squinting.
Miraz Jordan Hmmm, there's a video in this post, but it doesn't show up on the Timeline, only on the web…@help
Smokey Ardisson Looks like the closing quote of your alt text is a curly quote (”), not a straight one, which must be causing parsing issues in the Micro.blog feed parser. // @help
Miraz Jordan Smokey Ardisson I guess it’s good luck there was only one curly quote after all that! ;-)
I looked in the Web Inspector for both the M.b post and your page, view-source on your page, and only finally noticed it when looking at the JSON feed itself! A trickly little fellow, that quote.
Miraz Jordan @smokey Wow, that was a lot of effort on your part! Thank you. I’ve had a day of annoyances, one way and another. I'm surprised the one curly quote was the only problem. 😀 As for the gif — tomorrow I may save out my 3 captioned images I used to make the gif and add them to the post, with straight-quoted alt text. 😉
Smokey Ardisson That’s the kind of puzzle my brain likes to solve (plus, I’m sure Help is sound asleep at this hour, so if I can solve it, faster turn-around), and if I don’t exercise those muscles enough, my old web-browser-developer war wounds start to hurt :-P…but mostly goes to show how easy it is for us to miss something like that, even when looking for it/a problem! Hoping the annoyances are at an end soon!
Miraz Jordan @smokey Thanks. It’s 9 pm so I’m pretty sure the annoyances are done for the day. On the plus side, I have created 2 scripts for each of 3 water monitoring sites that get me the date and the data point I wanted. Next up, automate the next step.
Miraz Jordan @smokey Yup. I love automation. I didn't work on the scripts today, but yesterday I achieved getting the data I want. The next step is then putting the data where I want it (eg adding text, ready to paste into a WordPress widget and differently worded text for FB and my local website ☛ Twitter, and into a spreadsheet and making a graph, with screenshot etc. Oh! Whew! One thing at a time.