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Giles Jones wrote: > Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >> it's open-source (BSD license), so all the code is available to build >> on whatever environment/architecture you want (as far as my limited >> understanding of portable code/interpretation of the gears wiki goes, >> anyway) >> >> http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/ >> >> i might look into this - gears piqued my interest a while back, but i >> never had a suitable project for it > > This is the problem though, why should someone spend hours porting an > application to their phone just to be able to read a list they can perfectly > easily read now? > > I find this a bit crazy given this is a project to develop software for a > mobile handset. We should be very aware of the limitations of a mobile > device, CPU speed, memory and download speed. Hint: These people never used mobile data sets, so have no idea about the limitations. Furthermore, the limitations are so that you cannot really help them: a) bandwidth: classical solutions for these are more caching (doesn't work, we do have a strictly limited memory budget), or more calculation on the client (which is limited in speed, and would lower the battery endurance, which is already low with "data" phones :( ) b) memory: storing more stuff on the server is not really an option with GPRS speed communications, for most use cases. Andreas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGqFvkHJdudm4KnO0RAq3RAJ4mArludDN2XSzgeFXFNhxm+V6jDgCeKmvt /7JApYyWQfhlKO2wgjX+Xuw= =Yp5n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
