On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:44:39PM -0600, Akshay wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Was wanting to find information related to starting a development process
> for microbrowsers - specifically for wireless PDAs. Have the following
> questions and would be really grateful if someone could help me out.
>
> 1. How similar/dissimilar would such a process be to developing an HTTP
> client for regular networks?
For the most part the same, but you have to watch for Palm-isms (like
the call timeouts and remember to check for events).
> 2. Are there a lot of PDA microbrowsers out there already?
There was PalmScape (I don't know if it is still around), there is
HandWeb. Also there are proxy type things like AvantGo and ProxiWeb
that do the browsing by proxy and send the compressed info down.
> 3. Are there any usefull web-resources on all of his?
w3.org about http and html. Beyond that you need to be more specific.
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