bigtlb
Well-known member
My two cents....
I really wouldn't want to use a third party dedicated web site for a few reasons:
This could be a convenience feature added to an existing, appropriate site. (e.g. MyChargePoint.net, OpenChargeMaps.org, PlugShare). You wouldn't really get more functionality, just maybe an alternate layout.
The Nissan owners portal isn't that bad, I use it from my desktop all the time. But it isn't convenient for portable and non-flash devices.
I really wouldn't want to use a third party dedicated web site for a few reasons:
- Any company to do this probably wouldn't have the infrastructure of Nissan (it would probably end up being an individual developer). So, would probably have an even lower track record on responsiveness, availability and up time.
- I would have privacy and security concerns.
- Are they using ssl?
- Are they harvesting my credentials, or information about my behavior?
- With no adequate revenue model, the site wouldn't stay up for long.
- How would the developer pay for the ssl cert?
- how would they pay for hosting time?
- Unless they are using the same server for other projects - which could affect up-time and availability
- An alternate site wouldn't give you much more meaningful functionality than the Nissan Owners Portal
This could be a convenience feature added to an existing, appropriate site. (e.g. MyChargePoint.net, OpenChargeMaps.org, PlugShare). You wouldn't really get more functionality, just maybe an alternate layout.
The Nissan owners portal isn't that bad, I use it from my desktop all the time. But it isn't convenient for portable and non-flash devices.
- Nissan is infatuated with Flash. Unless the portal understands you browser's user-agent string as a mobile device and sends you the scaled down page, you must be able to handle Flash.
- Surface RT is not recognized as mobile, and the Nissan site is not on the white-list of approved sites for flash.
- (I don't feel I should have to hack the white list to make this work, and many people may not know how to do this)
- For some reason Nissan decided that the mobile version of there site would not remember logins.
- Notification preferences aren't changeable from the mobile web site