On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:27:51AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Help me to explain to my boss why a Network Application that for the
> libraries takes 381 KB and that at the and should be 850Kb or 1.1Mb, is not a
> good idea for Palm Pilot. I think it would be better to have terminal Query
> forms in the Palm Pilot, while the searching Application running on a proxi
> server or on the Server Side. Or better Web clipping or WAP services could be
> better.
If you are referring to the INetLibrary and WebLibrary and the
Clipper, etc. they are all to implement full HTML internet access. If
all you want to to is telnet, you can omit most of them and just use
NetLibrary.
Any code takes space. Palm implements a relatively full set of the
HTTP protocol (Including secure transactions!) and HTML parsing
(albeit clipped). If they had a lot of time, they might be able to
optimize the code a bit and shrink it but I think their time is better
spent elsewhere.
What is the alternative? Don't use the libraries (e.g. you don't need
the 3 Aim Libraries if you aren't going to use secure transactions).
Move to WinCE (or whatever they are renaming it to today)? Their
implementations take MORE space. (I don't know if they've made
progress, but CE apps normally take 10x the space of a Palm app - and
why don't bosses object to software that takes 100+ Megabytes on the
desktop?).
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