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I've ended up stranded in parts of the UK, where about the only option on the menu is to eat chips and salad. That gets a little boring. In Scotland I was even served powdered potato mash! In Italy I was constantly subject to ridicule. At least near the med there are vegetable options.
I think I was overtly strict for the first decade of being vegan. Going to the extreme. Consulting the Animal Free Shopper with each purchase.
These days I don't beat myself up so much about it. I'll even take a local ale (probably non-vegan) over a bottled lager. I'll avoid heavily packaged products even if they are vegan. I'll avoid flown in exotic veg.
I think you've got to find a line that you are comfortable with and be prepared to move it.
From the vegan society: A vegan is someone who tries to live without exploiting animals, for the benefit of animals, people and the planet. Vegans eat a plant-based diet, with nothing coming from animals - no meat, milk, eggs or honey, for example. A vegan lifestyle also avoids leather, wool, silk and other animal products for clothing or any other purpose.
If you take: A vegan is someone who tries to live without exploiting animals.
I'd take that and read it with an emphasis on 'tries'. Easier said than done.
In my mind most steps towards being 100% vegetarian is good. I know meat eaters that are careful to source their meat, and are actually mainly vegan except for say eating meat at the weekend. Who just as much have an issue with some agricultural and farming practices. The only difference between us is that I'm not comfortable with murder for my own personal gain where I can avoid it.
What do the coloured markers represent? You are missing some info from your key.
Could you also add some help text to the key? As in how you define vegan/veggie/vegan-friendly.
How about providing a method whereby people can suggest other places? Perhaps for you to go and sample their wares at a later date.
I think you could squeeze in more info into your pop-ups. It's annoying going back and forth.
You are missing some direct links to websites (tibits).
If you hover over markers near the top of the map the popups are lost.
Slow on my 1.4 mb line.
Personally I think it would be better to use a frame like approach, especially for those with the real estate. Click on a marker, get the text in a side column.
My 2p.
As someone that likes to eat vegan food and having worked in a vegan cafe, I think it's important to clearly state if an outlet has a vegetarian/vegan kitchen. That's very appealing to me. To be honest I've gotten lazy at asking in a lot of places about how they prepare their food.
We have something called a chip shop in the UK, where you can buy deep fried chips, sausages, chicken and fish. Some places keep the vat of fat for chips separate to the meat and fish friers, others mix it all up, and some chip shops (especially up norf'), use animal fats to fry in. I've bought countless bags of chips only to discover small bits of fish, or find the chips taste of chicken. Even in some places where I've asked and they've assured me otherwise. To be frank some people are too thick to even answer the question if posed or just don't care. I know for a fact the veggie burgers in Grubbs in Brighton were fried in the meat friers (though that might be past practice). It's also a bit of a turn off for me to watch someone make me a sandwich after they've just prepared someone elses and handled meat.
I'd like a veggie chip shop friendly list (if you can ever call a chip shop that)! I should cobble something together myself.
Where others have ascertained that the kitchen is veggie friendly, that's good information to share.
Generally when doing web work our team is ultimately pushed for time. The solution normally complies with the request, but most of us are embarrassed with the code, and hope for a time to sort it out later, only to never get that time. There's always a flaw.
I think you can genuinely believe that you know something until you are called out on it, only to realise that you can't even explain it.
If you don't know something just reply 'I don't know.' followed by 'Can you explain that to me?', you might be met with stunned silence. Or better still someone will have a go at explaining something. Sometimes the process of explaining it helps you cement your understanding. When working alone I really miss that type of interaction.
Page runs on Drupal > Drupal uses database > Database connections were exhausted. I was suggesting caching up front to bypass calls to the database (not specifying a particular piece of caching software).
At the time I was looking at the page through a 3rd party cache. I didn't realise the page had inline comments, those would of course complicate the problem.
One thing that I find infuriating are sign up forms that include two password inputs alongside a sea of other fields.
What normally happens is that I have some validation issue upon submission, I forget to tick a box or something, the password fields are then cleared and I have to enter them both again. And so on.
I fix the font size and font in Firefox and state a preference in Chrome (seems to get overridden). I have a default zoom of 125% for Chrome, but it's starting to look like I can ditch that soon, as author's are changing their designs.
Sometimes resizing the window can lead to something more pleasing (font sizes can also change depending on the window size.) Resizing the browser doesn't play that well with tabs - resize one and you resize them all.
“You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.” ― Abraham Lincoln
In general though responsive sites are better for me.