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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 19:45 #44556
Peter Bennet
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Anyone know if you can get the Open Train Times box diagrams to work on a mobile phone?

E.g. http://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/KX/1

My wife has a HTC but it does not work on that.

Peter

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 19:47 #44557
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It works on my Samsung Galaxy S3
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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 19:50 #44558
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It works on my Samsung Galaxy S3 :D
Update: I tested it on both the default browser and in Chrome and it works in both

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 19:54 #44561
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Works on my iPhone 5
Planotransitophobic!
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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 19:56 #44562
Rickurd
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" said:
Anyone know if you can get the Open Train Times box diagrams to work on a mobile phone?

E.g. http://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/KX/1

My wife has a HTC but it does not work on that.

Peter
Try a different browser?

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 19:57 #44563
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Ah so different browsers can be installed - then that seems to be the answer. Not sure what the supplied browser is, but I was thinking of getting a phone similar and having the KX diagram would be handy every evening.

Peter

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 19:59 #44564
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It works on my Samsung Galaxy S3 :D
And S2 (ICS)

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 20:01 #44565
Rickurd
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Seems like we need a guinea pig to test it on Windows phone
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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 20:03 #44566
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Ah so different browsers can be installed - then that seems to be the answer. Not sure what the supplied browser is, but I was thinking of getting a phone similar and having the KX diagram would be handy every evening.

Peter
It is probably that the default browser doesn't support SVG/websockets/HTML5 which I believe is what the application uses. It certainly would have been useful in my commuting days when it came to do I or do I not get another pint.

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 20:29 #44569
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As far as I know it works fine on the iPhone browser, as well as on Chrome on Android, and probably most other Webkit based browsers.

Not sure on Windows Phone, might have to wind up the emulator!

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 20:30 #44570
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Yeah, you need a modern-ish browser to run the maps. Amusingly, they don't work on the Windows XP/IE8 combination I use at NR, but work on the supplied iPads :-)
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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 20:55 #44572
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Yeah, you need a modern-ish browser to run the maps. Amusingly, they don't work on the Windows XP/IE8 combination I use at NR, but work on the supplied iPads :-)
Internet Explorer is probably the worst browser avalable right now in my opinion

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 10/05/2013 at 23:23 #44579
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It totally works on the default browser on my Galaxy S[1]....



At-least the rather apt. warning is there!!

*off to install Chrome for Android*

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 11/05/2013 at 08:14 #44583
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Yeah, you need a modern-ish browser to run the maps. Amusingly, they don't work on the Windows XP/IE8 combination I use at NR, but work on the supplied iPads :-)
Network Rail's IT technology is wildly out of date. It is not unknown to take half an hour just to log in, check emails and log out again, even if there are no new emails to read.

I haven't used Internet Explorer on a Windows PC of my own for a few years now. It works ok if I chose to, but it is far slower than Google Chrome.

The maps work fine on an HTC Windows Phone 8X.

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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 11/05/2013 at 09:58 #44587
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That's quite impressive - I need to work on detecting if a browser supports SVG rather than just *loading* SVG
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Open Train Times and Mobile phones 20/08/2013 at 18:28 #48663
Peter Bennet
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Have got it render using Firefox for Mobiles after a fashion. The only problem is that it does not horizontally scroll. Tried to find Chrome to download but there are numerous Apps in the Tesco App store called Chrome but none actually appear to be the browser and it refuses to download from the Chrome website.

Still - getting there slowly.

Peter

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