Dear Plucker Team, I recently downloaded Plucker Desktop (1.2beta12) and want to say that it's a wonderful piece of work. I had tried Plucker a long time ago but AvantGo had a few sites I really liked and the auto-sync was much more userfriendly on my windows box. After my handful of sites was cut into half a handful with their usage limits I decided to take a look at Plucker again and there's Plucker Desktop at the top of the news. Just want to share a few comments with you from using it the past few days.
Good: Much smaller than Avantgo. saves 200k+ (aka 200 news articles) Multiple DB good idea. don't have to sync everything. Old commandline method not very accomodating. Most everything. Bad: 1) The URL filter doesn't seem to work. This occurs both under the Configure-Limits checkbox/form and manually using the url_pattern tag via StartingPage-List-InsertaHyperlink-URLpatternfilter. (My apologies if i missed the note that says "not yet implemented") 2) I also am having trouble spidering a few websites. It seems to be due to the "%20" escape as observed during Max detail. If the URL is explicitly mentioned (website, file, list) it seems to work. But if a link with the "%20" escape is encountered it seems to be translated first before requesting it and thus breaks. Here is a snippet from http://www.ny1.com/ny/NY1ToGo/index.html?body_template=topnews.html Explicit: ---- 6 collected, 3 to do ---- Processing http://www.ny1.com/ny/NY1ToGo/Story/inde.....ZAGAT%20REVIEWS... Retrieved ok. Parsed ok. Encountered: ---- 11 collected, 17 to do ---- Processing http://www.ny1.com/ny/NY1ToGo/Story/inde.....e=ZAGAT REVIEWS... Retrieval failed: -1 -- <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Bad request</TITLE></HEAD> . 3) Viewer: Too little free ram (under about 40k) results in "Exception error" on Palm on document load and exiting to launcher. Restarting Plucker results in immediate attempt to reload document and corresponding exception. Cannot return to Document Library to delete. Requires 3rd party app to delete db, or syncing and overwriting with a smaller db. Ugly: Confusing buttons. Maybe make it similar to the viewer and have config, delete, update next to each channel instead of selecting a channel, hovering over the button and then clicking. Renaming a channel doesn't rename the folder+database created. (Name in document library listing is updated) Maybe during Max Detail don't truncate the URLs. Update progress dialog doesn't automatically update. meter doesn't increment nor message window display new messages unless a refresh is forced via mouse movement over window. Downloads and conversions continue to take place, and messages are queued up until refresh takes place. When not connected, Plucker Desktop will update due channels with "404 Not Found" errors (tiny useless dbs). Info: WindowsXP (celeron 500, 256MB ram) Plucker Desktop v1.2beta12 for windows (Sept 3, 2002) PalmIIIe 2MB ram. PalmOS 3.1 PalmOS Emulator w/ 3.0 rom. (much faster to check experimental channels than via syncing) Maybe important, 56k modem usually connecting at 33k -> slow downloads and paid attention during channel update Walter Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
