[iRail] iRail Chrome Packaged WebApp

[Wouter Vandenneucker]

I was planning on doing that, but I'd like to wait until it's tested a
little more.. and when I added the delays.. Those are kind of important
when using trains in belgium.. :^)


2013/5/26 Pieter Colpaert <pieter at irail.be>

> Hi Wouter!
>
> Damn, your app is beautiful! Nice work. It works as expected :). I
> "advise" (since we've started wrapping all my advice between double quotes)
> everyone to have a look!
>
> Are you going to publish it in the chrome web app store?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pieter
>
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Wouter Vandenneucker <wouter at irail.be>wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Yesterday I talked to Pieter on twitter and asked if there was a desktop
>> app or offline WebApp to check which train to take. Since there wasn't any
>> and I was already searching for a first WebApp I could build, I took
>> Pieters "advice" ( = "ooh, so you want a chrome app? Build it" ).
>>
>> And so I started building a little packaged WebApp for iRail. And even
>> more: I finished it (mostly).
>> For those interested, you can find it here:
>> https://github.com/woutervddn/iRailChromeWebApp
>> Please do fork it to the iRail GitHub, I don't have the permissions to do
>> so.
>> Of course I welcome all feedback.
>>
>> A few things aren't totally working like I'd like it. Html5 date for
>> instance is dd-mm-yyyy, you can only change it by changing your local
>> settings.. kinda stupid.
>>
>> -----
>> Anyhow, in the process I also spotted something odd on the
>> http://irail.be webapp.
>> When you search for a train (for instance:
>> https://irail.be/route/hasselt/brussel-south/?time=1500&date=250513&direction=depart),
>> you'll find that the first result is* 15:01 → 16:24.*
>> *
>> *
>> If you click on "Earlier" afterwards, the link goes to:
>> https://irail.be/route/Hasselt/Brussels%20South/?time=1501&date=250513&direction=arrive.
>> Thus taking the first departure time and setting the direction to "arrive".
>>
>> This results in a list of results, the last one is: *13:10 → 14:51*.
>> Thereby it's missing 3 trains departing between 13:10 and 15:01.
>>
>> The solution to this is fairly simple: instead of using the first
>> departure time, the "Earlier" button should use the first arrival time.
>> Then the link would result in:
>> https://irail.be/route/Hasselt/Brussels%20South/?time=1624&date=250513&direction=arrive
>> .
>> The returned page will then give you 6 responses of which the last one is
>> the same train as the first one of the original page (*15:01 → 16:24*).
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>>
>> Wouter Vandenneucker
>>
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