Travellermap App for Windows - Where to D/L?

[Micah461]

Hey Team,
I had a Windows 10 crash and had to reload all my apps etc, I cannot find or remember where I got the downloadable Travellermap app for Windows. Does anyone with functioning memory circuits know/Remember?


Ad Astra!
MJ

 

[whartung]

There's a downloadable Travellermap app? How is it different?

 

[Micah461]

There's a downloadable Travellermap app? How is it different?

It installs to your desktop and your Taskbar. I had it there for a couple years before my crash. Just a little more handy than using a browser.

 

[whartung]

Well then it's likely just a shortcut. You can try dragging it to you desktop.

 

[whulorigan]

I have never heard of such an App.
But the person to ask would be inexorabletash , who runs Traveller Map.

 

[agorski]

Sounds like a web app that you create with your browser.

 

[inexorabletash]

Most browsers let you install web sites as apps. In Chrome you should be prompted, or can click the icon in the Omnibox.

 

[whartung]

The PWA, "Progressive Web App", is an app designed to be shortcutted and "installed" on a desktop or whatever, and to be "standalone".

They launch their own private instance of the browser and run in a chromeless window.

You can do it with any website, it just works much better for a site thats designed to be "detached" from a browser.

One of the ramifications of being in a chromeless window, is that you have no controls or menus. Notably, you don't have a back button.

So, if the site is not designed for it, it's not particularly difficult to fall into a hole you can not navigate back out of.

Travellermap suffers from this for some of its pages, so beware.

 

[whulorigan]

Notably, you don't have a back button.

So, if the site is not designed for it, it's not particularly difficult to fall into a hole you can not navigate back out of.

Travellermap suffers from this for some of its pages, so beware.

So you're saying the Galaxy on Traveller Map is actually cluttered with hard-to-detect Event Horizons?

 

[Grav_Moped]

The PWA, "Progressive Web App", is an app designed to be shortcutted and "installed" on a desktop or whatever, and to be "standalone".

They launch their own private instance of the browser and run in a chromeless window.

You can do it with any website, it just works much better for a site thats designed to be "detached" from a browser.

One of the ramifications of being in a chromeless window, is that you have no controls or menus. Notably, you don't have a back button.

So, if the site is not designed for it, it's not particularly difficult to fall into a hole you can not navigate back out of.

Travellermap suffers from this for some of its pages, so beware.

This fully explains a "family tech support" issue I had to work through with and explain to an elderly relative earlier this week. I got it right, but didn't know exactly why. Thank you!

 

[Micah461]

Most browsers let you install web sites as apps. In Chrome you should be prompted, or can click the icon in the Omnibox.

STANDBY FOR DOH.................DOH! Right there on the top bar of Chrome. NOW it all comes back to me, that which I forgot 5 months after I figured it out. Many thanks good Sir! MJ