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I’m sorry to say but to use Taxi Me on your mobile, you need javascript. I would implement a PHP/server-side version so that i’d be accessible for all users but it has to do with the fact that Google only offers the GDirections API in javascript. I’m praying for them to come out with it via HTTP but it’s not looking the greatest.

Google has a thread opened for this feature request so I encourage people to “star” it to help Google make this change. If this doesn’t come into play soon, I will find a workaround.

http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=235

I recently came across a strange bug the other day on Safari. Whenever you typed in the address Safari would strip out the commas before storing it in a javascript cookie. I searched around but didn’t find anything on it, so I came up with a workaround which was just a simple decode/encode function to filter the comma back in.

This would explain why if you typed in “123 Fake St, City, PROV” you would come back to the site and it would only say “123 Fake St”. It was stripping – not that kind of stripping – but yes, character stripping my commas!

The bug is fixed and now iPhone users can stop sending me death threats

What do you think we should add or make changes to?

UPDATE: I just implemented this. Rejoice!

I had a thought the other day that it would be handy if you could pass in the to and from locations into the URL and have it automatically load. I was thinking something like

http://www.taxime.ca/#from=123+Fake+St, Ottawa,ON&to=123+My+St,Ottawa,ON

I will hopefully implement this within the next few days.

Not long after Taxi Me was launched I had started to receive emails asking for a mobile version. This was already in the plans but we just hadn’t gotten around to it yet.

After mocking up the first design for the generic mobile, Shawn and I realized that the design was not going to work for the mobile and that it needed to be extremely basic. So we took that design, made some tweaks and are now using it for the iPhone layout!

It still needs a little touching up but it works pretty well. We are using this layout for all mobiles at the moment but will soon have a separate one for the generic mobile and BlackBerry. Note: Your mobile must support Javascript (until Google offers the support we need for PHP).

Let us know what you think. Do ya dig it? Is it your new homepage? Have you convinced your parents to get you an iPhone just to see this layout?