Oooops - I meant to send this to the list, but I replied directly to Neil. D'oh!
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 02:49, Neil Richardson wrote: > At 05:30 PM 2/12/2002, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > > How about a my.plkr.org, where you can configure your own page? > > I'm afraid I'm a bit lost; could someone please clarify what all this > discussion is about? Aside from one level of recursion, I don't understand > the difference between a remote portal page and the local home.html file > that links out to the pages you want plucked. My point is that these links are often difficult to find as they are not directly linked to. You are supposed to use them automatically through AvantGo and I don't think you are even supposed to be able to access them directly. This is why I wonder whether AvantGo will say "No!!! Mine!!" and get the sites to close off those links. > How would such a page > work? How would it be scripted/modified? (If that's anything like the way > the "boxes" on /. work, my understanding is that it would require sites you > want to pull information from to support that particular type of > information exchange--is that right?) If so, it seems like we're doing > nothing other than using up plkr.org's bandwidth, and I'd hate for Plucker > to lose its hosting because it becomes too useful/popular. :-] > Well I would like a system where people can browse the links and choose whether to add them to their homepage. The site would then effectively generate a home.html page. The advantage is no hacking HTML for the newbie, default appropriate MAXDEPTH etc. flags, and an easy way to find sites that you may not know about or may not be able to find the Palm version of. This would make plucker about as easy to use as AvantGo and wouldn't take a whole lot of bandwidth. I hadn't really thought about a my.yahoo.com style site with boxes but that sounds like a really good idea (apart from the bandwidth problem?). Ben
