The Owl has changed it's nest....

[gsnde]

Over the last 6 months the performance of The Owl's Nest has become unbearable slow and unreliable. The Screen Shot Gallery was unusable, the rest tiresome slow. I have asked myself if I should quit the whole thing or move. I decided to bite the bullet and since today The Owl's Nest has moved.

The migration was very smooth, the new hosting provider is a dream, and the the web is as fast as an Owl on afterburner. All old web pages are redirected, but please...

If you have linked The Owl's Nest please update your links - thank you.

Old address: http://www.interkultur.de/gossmann/fsx/
New address: http://www.owlsnest.eu/

Below these two addresses all pages and everything else is identically named and structured.

I have validated all pages against W3C validation. All with the exception of the AI Poll are 100% compliant - I know the reason for this one: the trick with the colored remarks in the result list are the culprit and it will stay.

I have tested against these browsers which has resulted in a massive fixing session:

IE7 (okay)
IE8 (okay)
IE9 (web ticker carries away the drop down menu - you can correct this by activating the compatibility mode - I can't fix this by code)
IE10 (okay)
IE11 (okay)

Current Firefox and Google Chrome (okay)

I removed all IE6 compatible code which makes mobiles browser behave much better.

Android browser (okay)
Safari browser (okay with the exception that the menus don't collapse without you making one selection - I will try to fix this by code)

I would appreciate some feedback about the web performance, especially for the heavy parts like the screen shot gallery.
If you see any incompatibility (menus not working, lists not sorting and filtering, etc.) please speak up now while I am at it. Thank you.

[sjimc2000]

Thanks for doing that Martin, I'd be lost without it.
A very informative site with great software.

p.s. It run's great on Firefox 22

Cheers ,, Jim

[Charl]

Thanks for the update Martin, a fabulous resource!
Very nice to have front page links, and many interesting journeys no doubt will result from trawling them all.
I did notice the "Download Centre" link is dead, but what a feast of other interesting bits... an airport distance calculator too!

Once again: Thanks for maintaining this, looks great.

EDIT: while looking at Adrian Brausch's latest Orion flightplans, I took a look at the RNZAF AI package in which I included Orion AI (and which is linked on your site).
Your site must certainly be popular! the downloads virtually doubled since the last time I looked.

[Ian Warren]

Martin, one area I'm not sure that has been done is regular USAF/RNZAF spotting at Christchurch during the season, Ill have to have a looksie.

Edit: Sorry Martin miss spelt your name, I speak to another Martyn very regular

[gsnde]

Thanks for all your feedback

After all the time and effort invested lately in The Owl's Nest I decided to go the last mile, too.

I exchanged the menu - the new one works well with IE7-IE11, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Android Browser (all tested).
I exchanged the news ticker - the new one works well with IE7-IE11, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Android Browser (all tested).

I think it even looks better than before. But there is no such thing as a free ride. Although it works flawless on above platforms it no longer validates 100% in W3C. But I rate error free experience for my visitor higher than any validation.

This now has become a major update with many changes in the coding. May I please again ask for your testing and feedback.

Thanks a lot!

[sjimc2000]

I checked again Martin, looked all over the place and never found any problems.
But your site is huge so there would be places I never went.
I never downloaded anything this time round.
The gallery works fine and fast ,, a real treat to use.
With what I looked at ,, I can't fault anything.

Using Firefox 22

Thanks for continuing the Owl's Nest Martin ,, marvelous resource.

Cheers ,, Jim