Washington State Ferries – Small Schedule(wsdot.com)

117 pointsby twobitshiftervor 5 Jahren38 comments

Washington State Ferries – Small Schedule

https://wsdot.com/Ferries/Schedule/Small/pda.aspx

40 comments

See also ferry.FYI

https://www.ferry.fyi/mukilteo

Quote from the author here: https://www.southwhidbeyrecord.com/life/coders-create-altern...

> “I hate advertising so much, more than anything,” he said. “I want it to be free, I want it to be accessible to everyone.”

latchkeyvor 5 Jahren

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!

mypalmikevor 5 Jahren

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.

arlattimorevor 5 Jahren

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.

mcswellvor 5 Jahren

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.

maverwavor 5 Jahren

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.

tyingqvor 5 Jahren

I wonder if any notable sites forgot to turn off their WAP/WML interfaces.

jeffbeevor 5 Jahren

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

tyingqvor 5 Jahren

Interesting. It's hard to even find a functioning wap browser...lots of dead links.

malinensvor 5 Jahren

there are browser extensions for that

na85vor 5 Jahren

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.

sharkenvor 5 Jahren

So much advertising opportunity lost :)

But a very no-nonsense site that doesn't get in your way, I'm a fan.

aaronbrethorstvor 5 Jahren

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.)

jffryvor 5 Jahren

I wish more sites offered simple, fast, "lite" versions.

For example, https://lite.cnn.com

perihelionsvor 5 Jahren

Duckduckgo has two different ones,

https://html.duckduckgo.com/

https://lite.duckduckgo.com/

dredmorbiusvor 5 Jahren

Not quite light, but: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/

doitLPvor 5 Jahren

https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/

dredmorbiusvor 5 Jahren

Which is what I'd already replied to.

themodelplumbervor 5 Jahren

Also worth mentioning for searching the classic web: https://wiby.me/

drstewartvor 5 Jahren

Also https://text.npr.org/

kleinschvor 5 Jahren

Zero-JS, fully functional, but sure to be downvoted…

https://mbasic.facebook.com/

underyxvor 5 Jahren

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.

11thEarlOfMarvor 5 Jahren

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networkedvor 5 Jahren

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...

elchiefvor 5 Jahren

seeing __doPostBack() in the source brings back some memories

hamandcheesevor 5 Jahren

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.

lowboyvor 5 Jahren

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

themodelplumbervor 5 Jahren

Or.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

wtallisvor 5 Jahren

This looks to me like the browser failing to include a reasonable default stylesheet.

Gaelanvor 5 Jahren

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.

[deleted]vor 5 Jahren