On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 11:47:19PM -0700, Steve Sabram wrote:
> Yes you are. Pretty much the pholosophy of the whole Palm VII is
> not to replace a browser. The whole development enviroment is there
> for you to take "web clippings" from internet sites. Remember that
> you are working with a very thin pipe.
"You can't be too rich or too thin...".
Actually I think it is the cost of the pipe. If you use Lynx, even a
cheap modem downloads the web content fast enough. I have a
cablemodem, and even it doesn't handle the 1 Meg of eye-candy per 10K
of information very well.
POSE or my cradle (or OmniSky for that matter) doesn't have a
kilopacket charge. I can wait a few seconds for content to download.
Having to pay $$$ in connect charges for the content is where problems
happen.
But maybe more to the original point, I already have an app that you
can enter a URL and it will generate a PQA file pointing there, and
Clipper has a mechanism to go to an arbitrary URL. Those pointed to
will have active links, and the server will convert the content (as
well as it can).
Now that the VII has an unlimited plan, this is a lot more attractive.
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