Airlines, aircraft builders and flag states, now as cards
Three pages in the directory were still plain lists of links: airlines, manufacturers and flag states. Each row had a name and a number, and that was it. They now look like the rest of the directory.
Airlines
Every airline is a card. When we have a logo for it, the logo sits on a light panel at the top of the card, because airline marks are drawn for white paper and lose half their shape on a dark background. We only show logos whose licence needs no credit: public domain or CC0, the same rule the map uses. A card has no room for an author's name, so a logo that would need one stays off.
Most airlines have no such logo, and their card shows a coloured chip with the airline's code instead. The colour comes from the code itself, so Lufthansa is always the same colour here and next to its aircraft on the map.
Under the mark you get the ICAO and IATA codes, the country flag, how many different airframes of that airline players have caught, and how many aircraft types those airframes cover.
Manufacturers
A manufacturer has no photo of its own, so its card borrows one from its aircraft: the photo of one of its types from Wikimedia Commons, with the photographer's name and licence printed on the picture. When none of its types has a photo, the card shows the builder's initials. Below that are its country and how many of its types are in our reference.
Flag states
Flag states got cards with the flag, the country name and the number of vessels players have caught under it. Each flag also carries a rarity tier, worked out from that flag's share of all ships players have caught: a flag on four percent of catches or more is common, one under two in a thousand is epic. A bar at the top splits the flags by tier, and a click on a part of the bar keeps only that tier.
Filters and lists
Airlines and manufacturers open with a bar split by country: the six countries with the most entries get their own colour and the rest share a grey "Other". Click a country to keep only it. The filters you have on show as pills above the grid, and a cross on a pill drops that one.
Each page has the same Cards/List switch as the section pages. The list is a dense table with a small preview, and the choice goes into the address, so a link to a list opens as a list.
Photos and logos load through our own server, like everywhere else in the directory, so a busy page does not run into Wikimedia's rate limit and turn into black squares.
Nothing changed for search engines. Each page still prints all of its rows as plain links, and there are no new addresses.
This was the last step of the directory redesign. Shipyards and ports keep their simple lists for now, since most of them have little to show beyond a name. If you think one of them deserves cards too, tell us in Discord.