Bus Map

[firstfrost]

I've been playing around with the Google Maps API and teaching myself Javascript (Javascript Lesson One: "there is no here here"), and have proof-of-concept (that is, the routes through 100) for an MBTA bus map (because I never know where any of the busses go).

http://web.mit.edu/boojum/www/Map/

I find that I have really no particular knack for nice-looking UI, so if anyone has suggestions (or CSS files!) let me know.

As far as the actual functionality goes, bug reports and suggestions also welcome. (I can't figure out a good way to allow hitting return to work for the text entry fields without triggering a page reload...)

Comments

[psychohist.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool!

I think you can use Javascript onsubmit() to intercept the return key. Have the function return false to avoid submitting the form.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

I have onsubmit set to return false for both of those; that definitely keeps it from submitting, but it also keeps it from doing anything like parsing the input if you hit return, too, and people seem to expect hitting return after an input to *do* something. :)

(I played around with using onchange, but that seemed to not work with IE. Darned platform compatibilities.)