Comment 5 for bug 219688

i confirm this also. this seems like a very easy problem to solve. all that you have to do is have the applet check the internet connection before updating. im not a programmer (yet), but this is all you have to tell it to do, just translate this general idea into actual code:

if (internet connection exists)
{
  update weather information on normal schedule
}
else
{
 wait until internet connection is established, then update weather information on normal schedule
}

or something like that. someone do something about this, its a really rather annoying bug.