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Here’s some answers to your questions from our web team.

Basically, the “Going to?” text is generated by javascript on our end (i.e. not in the widget). The javascript is written to clear that text once you click into the field. If we removed that text, there would be no descriptive copy to tell the user what goes in which box, in addition to the fact that clicking into the box would just clear the field anyway. What was created was pretty much “one for all” code. It’s not custom written to accept users’ parameters. The page (Trip Planner) lives on our site and simply lives on 3rd party sites as an i-frame – so the behind the scenes code and whatnot lives with us. We would have to auto-generate custom code for each user in order to get this to work.

Right now there isn’t a way we can pass destination parameters into the i-frame – we need to fix/rebuild the widget in the backend in order to get this functionality. But we are aware of this “problem” and that it’s on the “to-do” list for this year. (Woohoo!)

Also, we do have code that will allow a user to link through to a pre-populated Trip Planner page, like we do with the Destinations to Discover section of the site: http://tripplanning.translink.ca/hiwire?.a=iTripPlanning&End=111%20Some%20Address

If I wanted to create a pre-populated (Step 1) Trip Plan to “Chinatown”, the code would read
http://tripplanning.translink.ca/hiwire?.a=iTripPlanning&End=Chinatown

I’m going to add this URL snippet to the widget page (sometime this week) as an extra piece of info for developers or anyone who might want to link to pre-populated Trip Planner, as an interim solution until the widget is updated.

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Karen: just wanted to check — are you accessing http://tripplanning.translink.ca on your mobile browser? Not just the mobile site at m.translink.ca? Hope I’m not telling you something you already know, but the trip planner has been optimized for mobile phones, and I just want to make sure you know it’s an option. If you’ve already tried it and it doesn’t work, let me know!

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I don’t own an iPhone either, but my Blackberry does work well with the mobile trip planner and I’m able to set date options to plan my trips.

For starters, is your Samsung browser set to “mobile” or “desktop” view. It makes a huge difference between the trip planner analyzes your browser setting and enables/disables Java. Sorry I’m not on Windows Mobile to see what your screens are exactly.

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Apart from being able to have the destination already filled in, would be to have the arrival time also done so as to aid people hosting events.

A drop down list of the major exchanges in addition to being to type in your own departure point would be handy too. All too often, people looking for information will already be at or near a major transit exchange and having this ability would be great for mobile people to save time.

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As it is NOW, the mobile link doesnt seem to offer what a desktop computer has access to.

What I NEED, is somewhere online/app? where I can enter trip details/dates and return trip options (like the desktop accessible internet site option). Being able to send the output of any trip to my cell via text or simply having it avail on the screen to capture the text for trip guidelines would be great.

NOTHING I’ve found yet seems to work. Google Maps and their transit option area do not provide dates/times on trips which correlate with details provided via phone/website. Very odd.

I do not have an iphone.

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