City Cars, Mobile Phones and Browser History
Anyone who visits the site regularly will have noticed the addition of a few new features over the last couple of weeks. Here is an explanation of what has been added.
City Car Club - A great new addition to the information on the site are markers for the City Car Club cars in and around Bristol and Bath. City Cars are a fantiastic idea for anyone who needs a car in town from time to time but would rather not have the expense of owning a car all the time. The savings can be considerable. Once you are a member of the club you can book and use cars in any of the cities where the club operates which includes London, Edinburgh, Brighton, Norwich, Portsmouth, Camberley in addition to Bath and Bristol. In fact is you move the map to these other cities you will find the car markers will be shown for those cities too.
Mobile phones - Ever since the site first started one of the first questions people asked was "can I access this from my mobile?" The answer used to be no, but now it is YES! The mobile interface is entirely text based but this is good for small mobile screens and saves time and bandwidth which can be pretty pricey on mobiles. You can access the mobile interface at m.bristolstreets.co.uk and you can see instructions on how to use it through the mobile phone icon on the sidebar in the normal site.
Browser Back Button - Because Bristolstreets.co.uk uses a map and does not load new pages every time you click an link or function, the only way to go back to a previous marker was to use the "recent" list in the sidebar. Now we have added history logging so that each time you click on a marker or change the viewing mode (buses, cycles, ferries, etc) an item is added to the browser history so you can use the browser's back button like you can on old fashioned sites. It also means when you bookmark the site with a marker window open or with a mode selected, these features are also held in the bookmark and are restored when you use that bookmark.
There are so many things we want to add next we don't know which ones to do first. Keep checking the site as there is lots of great stuff to come.
City Car Club - A great new addition to the information on the site are markers for the City Car Club cars in and around Bristol and Bath. City Cars are a fantiastic idea for anyone who needs a car in town from time to time but would rather not have the expense of owning a car all the time. The savings can be considerable. Once you are a member of the club you can book and use cars in any of the cities where the club operates which includes London, Edinburgh, Brighton, Norwich, Portsmouth, Camberley in addition to Bath and Bristol. In fact is you move the map to these other cities you will find the car markers will be shown for those cities too.
Mobile phones - Ever since the site first started one of the first questions people asked was "can I access this from my mobile?" The answer used to be no, but now it is YES! The mobile interface is entirely text based but this is good for small mobile screens and saves time and bandwidth which can be pretty pricey on mobiles. You can access the mobile interface at m.bristolstreets.co.uk and you can see instructions on how to use it through the mobile phone icon on the sidebar in the normal site.
Browser Back Button - Because Bristolstreets.co.uk uses a map and does not load new pages every time you click an link or function, the only way to go back to a previous marker was to use the "recent" list in the sidebar. Now we have added history logging so that each time you click on a marker or change the viewing mode (buses, cycles, ferries, etc) an item is added to the browser history so you can use the browser's back button like you can on old fashioned sites. It also means when you bookmark the site with a marker window open or with a mode selected, these features are also held in the bookmark and are restored when you use that bookmark.
There are so many things we want to add next we don't know which ones to do first. Keep checking the site as there is lots of great stuff to come.
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5:35 PM
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