{rant} I very much enjoy viewing the wind at various altitudes around my area. Great clues about where the Highs and Lows are and what might be happening and how soon. Visiting my "
Windyty.com" page just now, I saw (or actually did
NOT see) that the layers choices, altitude and times choices were
gone! Three possibilities came to mind:
- My site had been hacked by some one who doesn't like 'wind'.
- I maid a serious erer editing thee paige (witch I haven't dun in several weaks).
- Windyty.com has changed what they display.
Fortunately, I could eliminate #1 and 2. Unfortunately, I found that #3 was the cause of the missing functionality.
Windyty.com now
requires a
minimum width of 750 pixels in order to display the re-modeled 'controls'. Even worse, those controls now constant show
all the available choices instead of keeping them in a neat and small pop-up list! I'm sure 'they' think this makes it easier to view different weather phenomena or at least encourages views to look at more of them. Perhaps they think normal viewers are not smart enough to know what to do with pop-up lists?
I also make my site viewable on any screen width. I don't see why, in this age of multiple devices why people want to force a viewer to have a certain width screen. I grew to loathe horizontal scrolling decades ago!
So, my site can be viewed on any size screen available, be it a full screen desktop (or even a desktop browser at its minimum possible window width!) or an iPhone in Portrait mode. It may not be perfect, but I'm not a professional, either. Simple media queries work just fine in CSS, no javascript needed (nor wanted).
I'll change the code to reflect the new minimum size but I will be contacting
Windyty.com as soon as I post this. It is a terrible move on their part, in my humble opinion. It will decrease the usability of their site simply by eliminating the flexibility of their (and my) site! Of course, I'm getting exactly what I paid for:
nothing! So I doubt they will even reply to my concerns/complaints.
{/rant}