re: Lee Rimar’s comment on March 6th: it sounds as if the gist is that I should be able to get similar results directly from trimet.org now. But I don’t understand exactly what this entails.

I’d already tried loading TriMet web pages in my iPod touch’s web browser. However, all the zooming in and out, clicking on tiny links etc. is much more trouble than it’s worth.

I had two feature requests. One I think is a no-brainer, the other isn’t really a feature request but more of a new program along the same lines…

First of all, when you are viewing a specific time for the next train, I’d like to be able to touch that and see another page with a list of stops and when that train will arrive at each.

The other is harder…
I’ve seen programs that will tell you a series of busses/trains to get somewhere… I’d love to have that ability with trimet tracker (Nothing else is really easy to use on the iPhone).

If I were to put in 2 stop IDs, it could come up with a list of bus/max/trolley lines I would have to take. Times would be nice too.

This would help me make much better use of the trimet system…

Even if you don’t have the time to do either, thanks a lot for what you have done! It’s really fantastic.

If you look at the source of any of their pages, you’ll now find these two lines:

meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, height=device-height”/

link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”/images/trimet-icon.png”/

Cool, huh?

http://lee.rimar.googlepages.com/trimet.html

If you view the source of that page, you’ll see that it’s really easy to do for any website at all.

I found a neat trick for web pages that don’t understand the iPhone screen size.

As long as you have a place to host your OWN page:

1) Create a page that specifies a frameset of ONE frame
2) Use the meta viewport item to specify the width of the page
3) Make the source of the page’s one frame the site you want to keep from resizing.

Here’s what I mean:

TRIMET

Thanks!