[HN Gopher] Washington State Ferries - Small Schedule
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Washington State Ferries - Small Schedule
Author : twobitshifter
Score : 106 points
Date : 2021-08-22 16:24 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| elchief wrote:
| seeing __doPostBack() in the source brings back some memories
| latchkey wrote:
| I recently spent 6 months in west seattle and got a chance to
| take the ferries. Great fun. Protip: book your tickets in
| advance.
|
| One time on the way back, we got prioritized behind all the
| people with tickets and boat after boat... 4-5 hours later.
| Luckily I have a campervan, so it wasn't a huge deal to wait in
| line, but I definitely learned a big lesson!
| mypalmike wrote:
| Just to add: reservations are only available on a couple routes
| (Coupeville and the San Juan Islands), and only during summer
| tourist season. Most routes are fcfs.
| hamandcheese wrote:
| It's great that it's lightweight, but the information on my
| already-small iPhone 12 mini takes up a small fraction of my
| screen and is illegible without zooming in. Fixing this would
| take just a few more lines of CSS.
|
| Edit: or maybe just a single line of HTML to set the viewport
| meta tag.
| tyingq wrote:
| I wonder if any notable sites forgot to turn off their WAP/WML
| interfaces.
| jeffbee wrote:
| I don't think they "forgot" but Nextbus is contractually
| required to maintain a WAP site by the SF MTA (and possibly
| other customers).
|
| https://retro.umoiq.com/s/w2
| tyingq wrote:
| Interesting. It's hard to even find a functioning wap
| browser...lots of dead links.
| lowboy wrote:
| This is not a good experience on a mobile device. It could likely
| be fixed with a few dozen bytes of inline css.
|
| https://i.imgur.com/T5ntV2A.png
| themodelplumber wrote:
| Or.
|
| <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-
| scale=1">
| [deleted]
| wtallis wrote:
| This looks to me like the browser failing to include a
| reasonable default stylesheet.
| Gaelan wrote:
| Mobile browsers have, since at least the first iPhone,
| defaulted to showing websites zoomed way out, on the theory
| that the site might not have been designed for a screen that
| narrow. Sites that are designed to support a phone screen are
| supposed to say so, using the meta tag given elsewhere in the
| thread.
| arlattimore wrote:
| You could deliver that in a more traditional UX, but that
| typically means you need to deal with calendar controls etc. For
| mobile users, maybe they should add those same quick links to the
| standard site and see how users react - I bet they'd be well
| received.
| mcswell wrote:
| Why, when there is only one possible answer to the next question,
| does it still insist on asking that question? Pick your departing
| port as Bainbridge Island and see what I mean.
| maverwa wrote:
| Consistency, makes it easier to understand. When it would
| automatically pick the only possible answer, you might think
| that you accidentally clicked on the next link already or that
| something else happened incorrectly. You would have to add a
| message stating that the system auto-selected the only possible
| destination. It's also (slightly) easier to implement. Both not
| hugely problematic, but in my opinion its the correct decision
| for this case.
| na85 wrote:
| BC Ferries used to do this also, but have in the last few years
| moved to a more modern-looking, responsive layout.
|
| TBH I miss the old-school unstyled text.
| sharken wrote:
| So much advertising opportunity lost :)
|
| But a very no-nonsense site that doesn't get in your way, I'm a
| fan.
| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| You can also find Washington State Ferries data in OneBusAway,
| which is free, open source, and has just been rewritten in Swift:
| https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-ios
|
| (and is also looking for volunteer developers and localizers.)
| jffry wrote:
| I wish more sites offered simple, fast, "lite" versions.
|
| For example, https://lite.cnn.com
| kleinsch wrote:
| Zero-JS, fully functional, but sure to be downvoted...
|
| https://mbasic.facebook.com/
| underyx wrote:
| Thanks for linking this, I've been using m.facebook.com for
| years now and will be replacing it with mbasic!
|
| I did downvote though as you requested.
| perihelions wrote:
| Duckduckgo has two different ones,
|
| https://html.duckduckgo.com/
|
| https://lite.duckduckgo.com/
| themodelplumber wrote:
| Also worth mentioning for searching the classic web:
| https://wiby.me/
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Not _quite_ light, but: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
| doitLP wrote:
| https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Which is what I'd already replied to.
| drstewart wrote:
| Also https://text.npr.org/
| 11thEarlOfMar wrote:
| Interesting. 3 stories about Biden. 4 stories about Trump.
| ChrisClark wrote:
| It's almost as if the news reports current events. 7 stories
| about the current and past president out of ~60? Must be some
| conspiracy! :D
| rdiddly wrote:
| The past president is usually just that, not news. But
| Trump was good for ratings and they don't want to let it
| go.
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| To be fair the current president is usually not news
| because they're not doing anything out of the ordinary
| (ordinarily)
|
| Trump makes himself newsworthy by being a bottomless pit
| of disorder. No disagreement that the news is in it for
| the ratings/eyeballs etc, but how is it the news's fault
| that trump is good for ratings?
| WesleyHale wrote:
| I would think the Afghanistan situation would give them
| enough fuel for at least a week or two.
| wtallis wrote:
| Three of the four Trump-related headlines in question
| _are_ about Afghanistan.
| rdiddly wrote:
| Who said anything about fault? But now that you mention
| it, news media did provide crucial care and feeding for
| his campaign in the first place, perhaps thinking it was
| all a joke, but in any case correctly guessing it would
| be good for ratings.
| kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote:
| > To be fair the current president is usually not news
| because they're not doing anything out of the ordinary
| (ordinarily)
|
| I do find it interesting that most news sites seem to
| have agreed that his stumbling, bumbling way of often
| losing his train of thought is rarely worth a mention.
| shadilay wrote:
| Personally I would expect the news to be biased towards the
| current year 'news' vs last years 'olds'.
| gccs wrote:
| I thought you were joking but there are literally 4 stories
| about trump.
| networked wrote:
| http://slashdot.org/palm was available at least from 2000 [1] to
| 2016 [2]. (Perhaps a year or two longer, but the Internet
| Archive's crawler got banned in February 2016. The current error
| page was first archived in October 2018.)
|
| [1]
| https://web.archive.org/web/20001012050323/http://slashdot.o...
|
| [2]
| https://web.archive.org/web/20160128183858/http://slashdot.o...
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