gTraffic v2.0
New version of site has been deployed. The original site has been completely rewritten using GWT. There are a number of outstanding issues to resolve but nothing that effects the usability of the site. I intend to write more about my experience of using GWT in future posts. The old site was about to go kaput because it was using version 1 of the Google map so I have brought this site out now to avoid any hiccups in service.
Much to my disappointment the coolest feature of the site didn’t make this cut. I have implemented the MIT Simile Timeline javascript control using GWT. This was being used to display regional traffic events so that it was possible to examine each events temporal position amongst its neighbours. I just could not get it to draw itself into it’s parent tab properly. I will get this working if it kills me.
The help pages under IE don’t seem to take on the correct styling.
The position of all the UI elements is sometimes a little off when going into the site with blank browser cache.
You can still access the old site though www.gtraffic.co.uk.
Anyway more tomorrow…