> The only nit I have to pick though is in its current state there is no way
> to handle forms for stored submission at a later sync. This is probably
> one of the few reasons I've discovered to keep AvantGo on my Visor though
> it really consumes much more space than necessary. Are there any plans to
> handle forms in Plucker?
It's been asked by dozens of people over the past couple of years.
There is one person actively working on it (Ben Chess), and it will require
some "interesting" changes in the way the conduit and parsers work (i.e. you
have to pull the form values from the Palm database, reverse-engineer that
back into a URL (what if you used --no-urlinfo?) and then POST to the original
website you retrieved them from wait for a response, get response, then create
a (COMPLETELY NEW) database with the form response page, and sync that to the
device. Not as easy as it seems, but definately doable. It will take a few
changes to the way we build and store PDBs for Plucker, but it's possible.
I wonder how much bloat though, since most of our parsing is at the
desktop. Only a few dozen controls on the Palm side to handle forms and
checkboxes, some storage of those elements and returns, and it should still
work.
Hrm... in any case, it doesn't exist yet.
/d
