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>       I've just read <http://www.plkr.org/index.plkr?a=faq&sec=1.1>
> & 1.2, and am indeed interested in Plucker to replace AvantGo (which
> was free for personal use, until it broke for Palm Desktop 4/X).

        This might help a bit:

        http://www.plkr.org/a-vs-p.html

> One question that keeps occurring to me is: why is it better to have a
> Plucker-format parser on the Palm, and a translator on the Mac, rather
> than a straight HTML parser on the Palm.

        Because we use the power of the desktop to create the content, not
the (lesser) power of the handheld to convert HTML to Plucker format. The
other benefit is that you can create Plucker content, without having a Palm
at all, or having one connected to your machine at sync time. When you wish
to sync, your (already prepared) content is sent to the Palm, no delays.

> It would also be good to compare Plucker to iSilo, which seems to have
> similar functionality (although I haven't built any iSilo PDBs yet) but
> inferior compression, for a fee.

        Feel free to help add the bullet items to compare them. Since I am
not an iSilo user, I am not familiar with it, so I'd be doing a very biased
comparison. You can email me your comparison directly, if you wish, and I'll
add it to the chart above.



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