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> Is it worth the trouble to learn Plucker. Is it really better than
> avantgo?
I should put up an AvantGo vs. Plucker shootout page sometime. Let's
go over some of the high-level points:
1. Plucker has two forms of compression (zlib/doc), AvantGo
does not.
2. Plucker supports 13 languages, AvantGo does not.
3. Plucker supports local files (file://tmp/foo.txt) and intranet
(including https://) content, AvantGo does not.
4. Plucker supports runtime image scaling via the parser
([alt]maxwidth, [alt]maxheight), AvantGo does not.
5. Plucker is an 85k footprint on the Palm, AvantGo 4.0 is 399k,
without content.
6. Plucker supports Gestures, Autoscroll, Tap Navigation, colored
text, and Hardware button configuration options, AvantGo does
not.
7. Plucker is free and open source, under the GNU General Public
License, AvantGo is not.
8. Plucker uses an openly-documented data structure format, AvantGo
does not.
9. Plucker works on 11 platforms, 5 operating systems (with varying
degrees of difficulty), AvantGo supports 1.5 OS' (Windows, and
"almost" Macintosh).
10. Plucker does not "restrict" what websites can do with their own
content, AvantGo does.
11. Plucker supports multiple instances of the same content (NYTimes
with images, NYTimes with color, NYTimes without images) loaded
at the same time, AvantGo does not.
12. You can beam your Plucker content to another Plucker user,
with AvantGo you cannot.
13. Plucker offers 5 font choices, AvantGo offers 2.
...the list goes on and on.
Remind me, why are people using AvantGo again?
d.
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