Skeptical Science Upgrade
Posted on 14 January 2013 by Sphaerica
Skeptical Science has just transitioned into a (hopefully) transparent upgrade to HTML 5. Users are not supposed to experience any really noticable changes, although the spacing of some page elements may be different by a pixel or five, here or there.

You're very unlikely to notice anything at all. If you do, the first thing you should try to do is to refresh the page, to make sure you are using the latest versions of all of the styling and widgets.
With that said, today's web environment is a Rube Goldberg nightmare patchwork of ever changing technologies based on ever changing standards (or lack thereof) implemented by an ever changing array of companies, organizations and individuals.
The end result is what we, in the software industry, term "an annoying, maddening mess."
So, if you experience any unusual difficulties or see anything that looks wrong, please do not hesitate to post a comment here so that the vast, highly paid, over-staffed army of crack programmers behind Skeptical Science can fix it as quickly as possible.

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Hovering the cursor over the drop-down bar doesn't generate a normal drop-down listing underneath each linked tab. Instead, the listing appears in a blocked column to the left of the Most-Used Climate Myths thermometer.
It is difficult to move the cursor over fast enough to access this remote menu before it times out and disappears.
Affected Tabs:
Arguments, Software, Resources, Translations and About drop-down headers/listings.
FF 18.0, Windows 7.
I'm using a Mac OSX 10.8.2 with Safari 6.0.2.
Sounds similar to what Daniel is describing above.
{Mac OS X - ver 10.8.2 - Safari }
However these links were broken:
lessons from predictions
trend calculator
climate myths
prudent path
OA not OK
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Other than that, SWEET - it seems to work much faster and
I clinked around a bunch, including translations... never appreciated how many translations you've got. Bravo!
It all worked swell !
Although - about your "Donation"
too bad PayPal is the only option you have.
Not like I could donate much, but for you folks, I could definitely scratch some coin together. But I don't do the PayPal.
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Anyways, thanks for all your collective efforts, they help.
You folks are awesome !
Oh and I got Safari is 6.0.2 too.
don't ask me, I'm just reporting ;-)
Drop downs work fine and all the menu link also work.
In fact, I just check on this Mac and they are all working this time.
Cheers
How annoying to find the work-around just when WYSIWYG is nearly here ... sigh.
Yes, the temperature scale of the most uses septical arguments has holes in FireFox 18. Internet Explorer 9 is fine as is Chrome 23.0.1271.97 and 24.0.1312.5
I am currently looking at different wysiwyg editors that will make it easier to format comments on Skeptical Science.
Watch this space (literally!).
And check your e-mail.