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July 19, 2007
Streetcar on Your iPhone
If you're an early adopter, and already have your iPhone (guilty - I got mine at 11pm on the first day - after the lines were gone), an interface to the NextBus arrival time system used by Portland Streetcar has just been released. Check out pdx.munitime.com.
I'm jealous, I'd love to have a spiffy iPhone interface for our Transit Surfer for all of TriMet's lines!
Posted by Chris Smith at 12:25 AM
Comments
July 19, 2007 11:47 AM
Bill Says:
This looks great on my iPhone! I think my biggest usability issue with using tsrf.us on the iPhone is the fact that the page requires a lot of zooming in each time.
It should be an easy fix, the iPhone simply draws pages as if they were 980px wide unless told otherwise. Apple has put together a page with some tips on designing for the iPhone:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/designingcontent.html
Under "Optimize for Page Readability," there is a section on laying out content for the iPhone viewport. It appears a few lines of HTML could fix the problem while maintaining the interface for other devices. I think at minimum, putting a div around the content might make it zoomable via double-tap, which would be an improvement.
July 19, 2007 1:25 PM
Jason McHuff Says:
If anyone wants to preview it using a desktop web browser, just change the browser's User Agent to "iPhone". And I agree that the design looks nice.
after the lines were gone
What? You got one without camping out?!? :)
