Every page in the directory now looks like the directory
Earlier today the directory got a front page, filters you can see and card grids for airlines, manufacturers and flags. Open any single entry, though, and you were back on the old layout: a title, a paragraph and a set of underlined links, with each page type built a little differently.
That's fixed. The subject pages now share one layout:
- aircraft types, single airframes, airlines and manufacturers
- ships, flag states, shipyards and ports
- airports
The top of the page. The collectible card sits on the left. Next to it are the name, a row of chips and the sentence the server writes about the subject. The chips are the short facts you would otherwise hunt for: tier, category, flag, builder, and the codes (ICAO, MMSI, IMO) in a mono face so they copy cleanly. Below that are up to four numbers as tiles. A number we haven't measured, or one that is zero, is left out rather than printed as "0". Tiles that point at a section of the page take you to it.
Particulars. The facts about the subject are a grid of small tiles instead of a definition list: dimensions, year, builder, last destination, first flight, seats, range. Values missing from the reference data simply don't appear.
Lists with a sense of size. Operators of a type, receivers that heard an aircraft or ship, ports a vessel called at: these lists now draw a bar for each row. The bar shows how much each row has compared with the top one, so you can see in a second that one airline flies most of the type while the others have one or two each.
Spotters are a numbered list. The first one gets the medal.
Photos. Real photos and catch screenshots sit in their own grids, each one carrying its credit.
The three hubs we hadn't touched yet also got the treatment: shipyards, ports and airports. Each one now has a country bar you can click to filter, a search box, removable filter pills and a Cards/List switch. Airports draw a coloured code chip with the IATA code (ICAO when there isn't one). Shipyards and ports use a monogram. The airports list holds about 1,500 entries, so it loads a page at a time as you scroll.
What hasn't changed: addresses, the text search engines read, and the FAQ on each page. All of the copy still comes from the server. This was a layout change, not a rewrite, so links you have saved keep working.
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