Topic: Meteotemplate - new free website template

[jeffm5690]

While donations are great - I have donated and will in th future, calling out people - especially from a particular country is plain wrong - and I am from NY, USA.

[Jáchym]

 

I will not say I agree with one or the other. It is not black and white. One thing I will say though is that we should try to avoid generalizations. Very often things are different or completely opposite to what you would expect.

How about we change topic slightly

Is there anyone in the path of totality on Aug 21? Here in my country, the next total solar eclipse will be in 2134, so I will have to wait

[jeffm5690]

I will not say I agree with one or the other. It is not black and white. One thing I will say though is that we should try to avoid generalizations. Very often things are different or completely opposite to what you would expect.

How about we change topic slightly

Is there anyone in the path of totality on Aug 21? Here in my country, the next total solar eclipse will be in 2134, so I will have to wait

I wish I was but I’ll only be at 70%.  I will be in the next pass in 2024 I believe!

[Jáchym]

In 1998 I experienced 90% here. But the problem is that 90% still looks quite "normal". You don't see the corona effect and it is actually not even that dark. More like hour before sunset. There is a major difference between 90% and 98%. 90% seems like a lot, but its actually still quite light.
I will have to wait until 2134

[danb35]

We should get about 95-96% here.

[rods55555]

In 1998 I experienced 90% here. But the problem is that 90% still looks quite "normal". You don't see the corona effect and it is actually not even that dark. More like hour before sunset. There is a major difference between 90% and 98%. 90% seems like a lot, but its actually still quite light.
I will have to wait until 2134

I experienced a total solar eclipse in 1994, I was very young but remember it very well. I took a chance when the sun was completely blocked and I took a look for like a second at the sun, it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life, it's really amazing. The next total solar eclipse in my region is said to happen in the next 400 years .... I think I will not be able to be here to see the other one. 

[Jáchym]

Yes, the great thing about 100% is that at the very moment of the total eclipse you can actually look at it with naked eye. If you did that even with 98% you would end up blinded for a while and risk potential permanent eye damage.
I remember I was quite excited when I learned it will be over 90%, but to be quite honest it was a bit of a disappointment. Just that few % left makes a huge difference. Today we had a large thunderstorm in the afternoon and it was probably darker than back then.

The next total solar eclipse in my region is said to happen in the next 400 years .... I think I will not be able to be here to see the other one.

Come on... you need to be a bit more optimistic

[rods55555]

Yes, the great thing about 100% is that at the very moment of the total eclipse you can actually look at it with naked eye. If you did that even with 98% you would end up blinded for a while and risk potential permanent eye damage.
I remember I was quite excited when I learned it will be over 90%, but to be quite honest it was a bit of a disappointment. Just that few % left makes a huge difference. Today we had a large thunderstorm in the afternoon and it was probably darker than back then.

The next total solar eclipse in my region is said to happen in the next 400 years .... I think I will not be able to be here to see the other one.

Come on... you need to be a bit more optimistic

I remember that since it would be a 100% solar eclipse all the schools allowed the students to skip school that day if they wanted or you could go to school and the teachers would be there to help the students to see the eclipse. I chose to stay home with a few friends and we made a "device" with a mirror covered with a piece of paper with a round cut in the middle, so we could see how much of the sun was blocked by projecting the light on a wall, and when it went totally dark I took a look at the sun ..... I will never forget that.

[bchwdlks]

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How about we change topic slightly

Is there anyone in the path of totality on Aug 21? Here in my country, the next total solar eclipse will be in 2134, so I will have to wait

2 minutes and 30 seconds of totality. There is a 10 mile view across the valley to the WNW. It will be very interesting to see how quickly it changes from daylight to dark in the eclipse because the darkness will be moving from the west instead of from the east.  We normally have an extremely long twilight with a glow in the western sky long after sun set.

[Jáchym]

Block Update - Weather Facts 5.0

 - added support for Italy

Enjoy

[Jáchym]

Meteotemplate - Questionnaire

Hi guys,

please help me with planning future development of the template by filling in a short questionnaire, it will only take a minute or two.

Thanks

http://meteotemplate.com/blog/?p=3206

[Jáchym]

Can someone please check the DEMO mobile page and tell me if it looks better than the current one you have?

Thanks!

http://www.meteotemplate.com/template/indexMobile.php

[danb35]

http://www.meteotemplate.com/template/indexMobile.php

Still not looking right in Chrome on my iPad, I'm afraid.

[Jáchym]

OK, well when I tried narrowing the browser window, the current version looks perfect, the old one has very small font size. If it shows incorrectly then it means desktop Chrome behaves differently than mobile chrome even when you make the window narrow

[danb35]

It's working like my current site--if I rotate the iPad to portrait mode, it looks fine.  If I have it in landscape mode, though, the whole menu is expanded.  I think I posted screen shots of my site up-thread; your site is behaving the same way.

[Jáchym]

Aha, ok, no, I was playing around with font size.

That auto menu opening is an issue specific to Ipad and something I have not been able to replicate. I guess unless some user finds the root of the problem and how to fix it, I will not be able to do so myself. I suspect the problem might be that iPad sends incorrect screen size to the template when used in landscape, but I am not 100% sure.

[Jáchym]

This is how Chrome emulates iPhone, this seems good to me

[gillesroszak]

Can someone please check the DEMO mobile page and tell me if it looks better than the current one you have?

Thanks!

For me with android 5.1 it is perfect and better than mine

[Jáchym]

Thanks,
from what I can tell it now looks perfect to me, the only issue is Safari. Not sure about iPhone, but I know it does not display well on iPad.

[gillesroszak]

on my Ipad 3 with Safari it is also very good Jachym

[weather34]

Aha, ok, no, I was playing around with font size.

That auto menu opening is an issue specific to Ipad and something I have not been able to replicate. I guess unless some user finds the root of the problem and how to fix it, I will not be able to do so myself. I suspect the problem might be that iPad sends incorrect screen size to the template when used in landscape, but I am not 100% sure.

ipad... menu

@media all and (max-width: 768px), only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 1024px)...
to
@media all and (max-width: 768px), only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 250px)...

from the developers site ...

[Jáchym]

Hi Brian,
thanks, there are actually two problems:

1. I suspect that what iPad does is send the screen width in landscape mode same as in portrait or vice versa
2. what I still dont understand though is why it opens it. The menu should always start closed just like when used on a desktop PC or other phones.

[jay_hoehn]

Jachym,
The menu problem is not specific to Ipad.  My Acer Android has the same issue with the menu starting open.
Jay

Well, that is weird.  If I turn the tablet to portrait mode the menu looks fine.  In landscape mode the menu opens every time.

[Jáchym]

OK, well in that case I have to say Im lost. It doesnt do it in the browser no matter how narrow I make it... I tried on my sister´s Android phone and it worked fine too...

[weather34]

Hi Brian,
thanks, there are actually two problems:

1. I suspect that what iPad does is send the screen width in landscape mode same as in portrait or vice versa
2. what I still dont understand though is why it opens it. The menu should always start closed just like when used on a desktop PC or other phones.

you need to go to the developers web site and read the discussions there are numerous fixes all related mobile devices , not just specific to ipad .
for example there are many other references ..

- Set "#cssmenu ul ul" to "display:none;" when the width is less than 768, to prevent the mobile menu to show the sub-items when the menu is first opened.