Dave,
First off, thank you for all your hard work and thought that goes into SkyVector!
I for one really appreciate the new version and I find the majority of the complaints by a number of users to be non-issues.
For example, the ability to shuffle waypoints. I found that (a) you still can and (b) you don’t really have to because you can just insert them where you need them.
Or the map not centering over a waypoint. It does when you select it in the flight plan. I like that.
What I did find though is that if I use an older version of IE, then some things don’t work right. For example, the icons for “new,” “save,” and “load” are not visible. If you mouse over where they should be, you’ll get a tooltip box. In Chrome I have no issues at all.
A couple suggestions (from one s/w dev to another) ... what if the balloons on the map along the magenta lines would contain the time in addition to the distance (that seems to be an ongoing complaint by some)? And perhaps instead of (or addition to) displaying a right arrow in the flight plan box, you put the time, distance and bearing in parenthesis? The flight plan box seems to be plain text and I’m not sure you receive any user events back from it. But if you did, you wouldn’t need to insert the aforementioned data but could display a tooltip when a user mouses over a right arrow.
Just some ideas.
Keep up the good work and don’t loose any sleep over the ignorant forum posts. However, I do think many would appreciate it if you were to make an appearance on the forum and clear up some of the misunderstandings.
All the best!
D** M*****
(sddiver on the forum)
