The footy season is about to start for 2010, and once again the AFL Ladder Widget is going to be available for footy fans.
As has been the case every other season so far, I will probably need to release a new version of the widget so that it displays the correct information for 2010. This is because the websites that the widget uses to download the ladder information from always change each year in ways I can’t predict prior to the start of the season. So I have to wait until the source websites have their 2010 ladders up before I can guarantee that the widget will work properly.
It’s a pain but the AFL and other sites don’t publish their ladder pages at the same address every year, they seem to want to change the addresses in non-obvious ways.
So stay tuned!
The latest version of the AFL Ladder Widget is ready to download!
Head over to the AFL Ladder Widget page and download it from there, follow this link: AFL Ladder Widget.
I am working on a new AFL Ladder Widget, it will be a completely new widget for the 2009 AFL season, with new a new look and rewritten code. I hope to have the widget ready before the first round starts, but as in past years, I don’t expect that will be possible.
The problem is that the websites the Widget uses to fetch the ladder data from do not normally have their own ladders up and working correctly until the end of the first round of the regular season. It is not until then that I can work out the URLs that are required by the Widget. In past years (I’ve been working on the widget on and off since early 2005!) it has not been possible to work these out until after the first round and I can’t see this changing this year.
But the new Widget will have a new look, be optimised for Leopard but on the whole will be familiar to those who have used the Widget in the past.
So stay tuned!
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I finally got some time to address the issues people have been having with v1.5.4.
So here’s v1.5.5 which hopefully fixes the problems people have been having. The problem seems to have been due to the dodgy way I was storing the preference for the ladder data source in the preferences file. This update should fix it – but let me know if it doesn’t!
This version also introduces a refresh button on the front of the widget and fixes the ladder data from finalsiren.com.
Head over to the AFL Widget page to download it.
