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...and now it's deployed. You can see it here:

https://www.voo.st/



"You don't have JavaScript enabled. Good luck with that.

You're probably also running a painfully old web browser. It hurts us to see you suffer so."

You might want to tone that down a notch. I'm running Opera v12, but just keep JS off by default, white-listing sites as necessary.


Oops! This is one of those things that was supposed to be rewritten but never did. I guess the lesson is to be more careful about leaving snarky comments in public-facing copy... you might forget to change it.

Thanks for the reminder, this will be fixed this afternoon :)


Nice. However, too bad that on scrolling you set a "position:fixed;" style on the map/calender part. On my netbook screen, I can only see the first row of days on the calender, and because of position:fixed, I can't scroll down to see the rest.


Wow, that arrogant page regarding for users with no Javascript is... wow.

I browse with NoScript enabled by default, I don't need some site thinking it knows better than me and being patronising.

Might want to change some language use there.


(http://imgur.com/DSFGE)

I'm on a MacBookPro. I cannot scroll anymore. The [Add Event] button is obscured. The calendar is doing weird things with the menu - why doesn't voost go over it like the rest?


Thanks - this (and the iphone issues) should be fixed now.


Just wanted to mention that your site rocks, I really look forward to using it to discover athletic events around where I live!


Why wheel-to-zoom isn't working? I see this problem on many sites recently, and find it really annoying.


The problem with wheel-to-zoom is that it breaks the mac touchpad experience (and presumably other trackpads that support gestures). When you use two-finger scrolling, you move the page down until the mouse cursor happens to run over a map section, then the page stops scrolling and you start zooming. It's really annoying.

We explicitly turn off wheel-to-zoom. I suspect most sites do it for the same reason.

Most of our "real" users will probably pick a reasonable boundary around their home and leave it there for their lifetime, so disabling the wheel is probably the right decision for us. If our users did a lot of zoom navigation, we'd probably go the other way.


FYI, that page has bizarre scrolling behavior on an iPhone - in case that matters to you.


Unfortunately mobile devices handle the transition of the map element from position:static to position:fixed poorly. It's something we still have to figure out. Thanks for the heads up though!


Are you looking a IP addresses to get initial map coordinates? Curious.


Yes, using the free MaxMind database. We would rather use the geo data appengine provides but our SSL is proxied by CloudFlare and GAE doesn't recognize the forwarding headers yet.




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