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PostMon Nov 08, 2021 8:23 am 
The WADOT has revamped its web site, and not for the better IMO. Whereas before you could bookmark the pass cameras to get thumbnails and click for more info such as snow totals, weather forecasts, and resort cams now you get a link to all 150+ road cams in the state with snowcrummy pass at page 6 of I-90.

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PostMon Nov 08, 2021 8:38 am 
I went to wsdot home page, typed "pass report" in the search box, and boom, top of the list was the link to the mountain pass report page. That was easy.

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PostMon Nov 08, 2021 8:47 am 
Thanks updated bookmarks stilled liked the old format better for a quick look.

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PostMon Nov 08, 2021 6:00 pm 
Love seeing the snow. Too bad this stupid warm front/ar is going to dump warm rain to end this week.

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PostTue Nov 09, 2021 6:59 am 
Gwen wrote:
I went to wsdot home page, typed "pass report" in the search box, and boom, top of the list was the link to the mountain pass report page. That was easy.
Sure, but their code isn't standard as the old site was. I now have to switch over to Firefox now instead of continuing with Safari... typical of lame government programmers and / or contractors.

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PostTue Nov 09, 2021 8:17 am 
moonspots wrote:
Sure, but their code isn't standard as the old site was. I now have to switch over to Firefox now instead of continuing with Safari... typical of lame government programmers and / or contractors.
Interesting considering Firefox has 3.66 % market share and Safari 19% https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share But developers are a funny bunch and they might be using the Red Hat distribution and Firefox for religious reasons.

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PostTue Nov 09, 2021 9:22 am 
Randito wrote:
moonspots wrote:
Sure, but their code isn't standard as the old site was. I now have to switch over to Firefox now instead of continuing with Safari... typical of lame government programmers and / or contractors.
Interesting considering Firefox has 3.66 % market share and Safari 19% https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share But developers are a funny bunch and they might be using the Red Hat distribution and Firefox for religious reasons.
Developers on RHEL!? Sounds like something an ex-softie would say. Who wants to pay for a license? wink.gif

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PostTue Nov 09, 2021 10:09 am 
moonspots wrote:
Sure, but their code isn't standard as the old site was. I now have to switch over to Firefox now instead of continuing with Safari... typical of lame government programmers and / or contractors.
What happens on safari? What version and what hardware are you running it on?

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PostTue Nov 09, 2021 11:31 am 
Works for me on Safari but maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing.
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Developers on RHEL!? Sounds like something an ex-softie would say. Who wants to pay for a license? wink.gif
Most linux distros use FF by default so I'm not sure what Randito is talking about. I do know one dev who still prefers Fedora however.

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PostTue Nov 09, 2021 7:29 pm 
moonspots wrote:
Sure, but their code isn't standard as the old site was. I now have to switch over to Firefox now instead of continuing with Safari... typical of lame government programmers and / or contractors.
Their code is actually entirely standard, up to modern specs and and uses a very popular CMS that's easy to support long term - and this is especially relevant given that the sites was probably built by a contracted outsourcer rather than internally, but with the intention of making it as easy as possible for the internal parties to maintain (which I highly doubt the old site was). The old site was also built with much, much older browsers in mind, support for which has long since been deprecated due to long term security concerns and long lapsed end of life dates, and way, way back before everyone had a smart phone in their pocket - it was a real bad user experience trying to pull up Ferry schedules on my phone. If you're using a modern browser, you should have no trouble at all with the new site. If you're still hanging on an outdated browser, the problem isn't on their end.
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Interesting considering Firefox has 3.66 % market share and Safari 19%
Safari only has a 19% market share if you include iOS devices. Desktop browser usage is about 10% for Safari and 8.5% for Firefox. Depending on how they're counting those figures, it might even be artifically inflated toward Safari too, since both Chrome and Firefox running on any Apple devices are actually just re-skinned versions of the engine that Safari uses, and in turn they have the same pitfalls and quirks that Safari have.

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PostTue Nov 09, 2021 9:30 pm 
Don't you guys get enough of this stuff at work? Sorry - These days discussing OSs and browsers even at work makes me want to "RHELf" up a chrome firefox on safari onto the edge of my fedora.

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PostWed Nov 10, 2021 10:30 am 
moonspots wrote:
Sure, but their code isn't standard as the old site was. I now have to switch over to Firefox now instead of continuing with Safari... typical of lame government programmers and / or contractors.
I looked at the code. I don't see anything that looks bad. What do you think they're doing wrong? Do you have 15 toolbars installed?

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PostWed Nov 10, 2021 11:34 am 
Safari users dont matter tho, so no worries there. Using apple maps they wont find i90 or us2 anyway so it doesnt matter that the pass cams dont work. biggrin.gif

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