Ruben Malchow asked:

> b.) i think plucker is a nice start for a, well, embedded/lightweight 
> viewer. but at the moment it seems to be targeted mostly at 
> reading news with no bells and no whistles. 

Several people think of it as an ebook reader.

The main problem is that a palm is very limited.  It isn't fast,
it has a small screen, and there isn't much storage.  (This is
one reason I don't prefer plucker for ebooks -- I can't easily 
delete the chapters as I go.)

> more control over the layout might help open plucker to a 
> wider range of users. 

What specifically would you like added?  The parsers have
been passing more and more information through, but
... most web pages still assume a screen far wider than a palm.

> will it be possible to hand-code xml layout description with 
> plucker-specific code and feed them to the distiller to make 
> it pdb, or will plucker support one of the various 
> "wireless" html flavours directly some day?

If you can say exactly what you want, then probably (though
not this month).  It probably won't be the default option though,
because no-horizontal-scrolling is an important feature.

(As Alex mentioned, you could write your own onboard 
interpreter -- there are even python and java environments
for a palm that you could use with the current parsers --
but I wouldn't recommend it for speed.)

-jJ
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