First and foremost, the mime type has to be supported by the web
server. Either you have to add a `.vtt` mimetype, *or* just put it
as a `.txt` file. I chose the latter since it doesn't require a
custom Apache configuration.
Second, even if you make it a `.txt` file, using a CDN does not seem
to work. I suspect that maybe CDNs do really weird things with
mimetypes when they server them, or maybe the <track> element just
really doesn't like it when the URL is 301'd. 🤷
Anyway, with these two changes: using a `.txt` file, and hosting the
file locally, the subtitles now work properly!
Note, if you use the `default` attribute in the <track> tag, it'll
turn them on by default. Leaving it off does allow the user to turn
them on in my tests in both Chromium and Firefox.
It seems NYS doesn't put the hypen between “CHAR” and “500”, even
though we always did on these pages. I'm not changing the names of
the old files in docs/, as it doesn't seem worth it, but I did change
the textual description inside the anchor tags.
The existing jQuery UI-based fundraising progress bar used a float layout,
making it hard to adapt for mobile use. Given that there is not interactivity,
I've dropped all the JS and switched to a flexbox layout. This works well
because the bar will stretch to fit the text rather than always maintaining its scale.
We've had a report that the sidebars are very distracting,
particularly for the blogs, on smaller screens. This change to the
CSS will cause sidebars to disappear on smaller screens.
A few additional places where the news and press pages were not
properly menu integrated. This fixes various inconsistencies and
missing category and submenu markings in menus.
ourcoverage.html was a reasonable minimal start but not really ready
for production. Make changes necessary to put this into production,
as follows:
* Rename ourcoverage.html to vizio-coverage.html. This is just
Vizio coverage for now.
* Order articles by most in-depth/interesting. Verified this
ordering by consensus with Conservancy staff.
* mailto: link for press coverage on the main inthenews page, but
don't use that on Vizio page; it's unlikely we'll miss any of the
Vizio coverage.
* use — instead of -
* put quotes around article titles.
* Add missing PR Web article
* Switch from <p>'s to <li>'s in vizio-coverage.html
* Fix menu issues. 09a4b02 outlined the issues regarding how to
add items to menu; it does require a CSS change as explained
therein; merely using the right `base_` is not enough
* Improve menu integration. Per PR people's recommendation, the
Vizio stuff that also goes in other areas needs to be placed in
multiple menus.
During the recent improvements made on the website, the menus and
submenu highlighting for selected menus fell into disarray.
Correction requires changes to the CSS and templates both, because
Django doesn't really have a convenient way to set variables in
templates to use to solve this.
There are still a few submenu items highlighting not working even
after this commit. More work needs to be done.
