Help me test my school programming assignment

24    01 Apr 2015 18:41 by u/Atko

I am working on a mini project for a course I'm taking and I need some help to test it out. This is my second iteration, this time without using browser geolocation api.

The ideas is simple: you visit my web application at http://xyverse.com/, write a message and press enter or click the "send message" button. The application should find your IP address, submit a query to a geolocation service in order to find your latitude/longitude, transmit your message with lat/long to all currently connected clients (other people viewing the site) and plot it on the world map for 5 seconds, after which it should be removed from the map.

This all happens in realtime, there is no database/storage in the background and it should be a fun thing to play with.

Anyways, please give it a go and let me know if you find anything wrong with it. Thank you! :)

25 comments

4 u/MadMonkey 01 Apr 2015 19:39

Hi Atko,

I tried to use the website using 3G and my Galaxy S3 and was unable to send any messages. Seems like a cool site and idea though!

3 u/Qi 01 Apr 2015 19:07

Had some fun with this lol. Nice project.

3 u/IvanDSM 01 Apr 2015 20:36

Worked pretty well. Fun project, Atko!

3 u/rwbj 01 Apr 2015 20:47

The uBlock ad blocking extension seems to be interfering with usage of the site. Everything loads and I can see it all just fine, but sending didn't work until I disabled uBlock.

2 u/bioemerl 01 Apr 2015 20:03

Do you have to register or something?

2 u/SurvivorType 01 Apr 2015 20:45

I sent "Hello World" but the location seemed a bit off. Just so you know...

2 u/entropy797 01 Apr 2015 21:36

Atko, this is so so cool. Loving how real time it is.

2 u/Milehighwalrus 02 Apr 2015 00:36

Hey Atko, aka SE1, for making this awesome website.

Love - Cali 1

1 u/chmod 01 Apr 2015 22:03

Works in IE 11.

Geo was right on. Very nice.

1 u/entropy797 01 Apr 2015 22:41

Thanks for the laughs guys, love from uk1

1 u/luddite 01 Apr 2015 23:35

Works fine on:

FF 15.0/linux

IE 9.0/Win7. (Did not report any errors when i enabled dev tools on IE.)

FF 36/Win7 (some warnings in dev console, nothing to get worked up about)

Nice widget.

1 u/Benanov 02 Apr 2015 17:21

Seemed to work.

';-- I had to. :)

1 u/vornth 07 Apr 2015 02:07

I was able to use it with a Note 4 in Chrome on T-Mobile.

0 u/Gamerdog6482 02 Apr 2015 00:05

Send button doesn't work for me.

I'm running Iron 39 on Windows 7.