Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 at 21:49, Chris Pepper wrote: > The chart says AG doesn't do compression, but > says: > > >AvantGo parses compressed (i.e. "encrypted") html on the Palm device > >itself; Plucker parses uncompressed html on the server, and sen

Re: Feature matrix (was Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo)

> Well, if I am not mistaken, it's all in HEAD in CVS now, so as soon as the > daily snapshot make is fixed, it will be available daily on plkr.org, no? I managed to solve the bug in the Makefile regarding the fontconv issue, but there's still an open issue prohibiting the hourly snapshot

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

Alan Hoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > take http://nelson.oit.unc.edu/~alanh/tmp/plucker-feature-matrix.html to > use on their site, I've added a Creative Commons license to it. Or would You are discriminating against commercial use, so I think this licence is not very nice. Plucker can be used

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

Alexander R. Pruss writes: > iSiloX is the distiller. It's free. As in beer. Not open source, though (or at least if it is, they've hidden it pretty well). Hmm, I see they've dropped support for iSilo 2.x, the version I have registered on my palm. I've been using plucker so much and iSilo so l

Re: Feature matrix (was Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo)

> Are the font packages exclusively for HiRes screens or would they work on > 160x160 screens? (trying to decide where to put that feature in the > shuffle) Both. > Also, does the 1.2 Hires version support Virtual graffiti (either handera > or Sony) or not? Don't know. > I added these fea

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

iSilo is the viewer. It has a free mode in which hyperlinks and various other things don't work./ Otherwise, one pays. iSiloX is the distiller. It's free. -- Dr. Alexander R. Pruss || e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philosophy Department || online papers and home page: Georgetown University ||

Feature matrix (was Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo)

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 at 20:18, Alexander R. Pruss wrote: > You might add to the matrix that Plucker Unofficial Hires has keyboard > customizability. (This also relieves the annoyance of the ~32K split, > because if one has a keyboard, one can select the link with the keyboard, > which is painless.

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

At 7:20 PM -0400 2003/07/07, Alan Hoyle wrote: >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 at 16:40, Chris Pepper wrote: > >> For the sake of readability, please consider consolidating >> identical cells with colspan -- it makes scanning verbose information >> like a-vs-p-vs-i.html easier, and calls out similarities

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

You might add to the matrix that Plucker Unofficial Hires has keyboard customizability. (This also relieves the annoyance of the ~32K split, because if one has a keyboard, one can select the link with the keyboard, which is painless.) You also might add that it has the ability to take in externa

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 at 16:40, Chris Pepper wrote: > For the sake of readability, please consider consolidating > identical cells with colspan -- it makes scanning verbose information > like a-vs-p-vs-i.html easier, and calls out similarities better. Well, it's really David Desrosiers' docume

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

Is there a plan to get this onto www.plkr.org? I found essential, although the references to 1.4 as beta confuse me, since claims to offer 1.4.0.0 (which looks like a

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

David, I made a mistake. the iSilo document format is closed and proprietary. -alan On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 at 16:26, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > > I use Plucker and iSilo. I downloaded your comparison matrix, added a > > couple of features at the bottom, and made a couple corrections. (e.g. >

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

> I use Plucker and iSilo. I downloaded your comparison matrix, added a > couple of features at the bottom, and made a couple corrections. (e.g. > AvantGo OS5 support is out of beta now.) Things I couldn't answer > definitively include "???" in their answer. Great work, I've updated my

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 at 08:53, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > > 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 co

RE: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

> > One thing that's missing is that AvantGo has an on-line > > browsing mode, whereas Plucker doesn't. > You didn't read down far enough, did you see the "Online Mode" > section of the document? I thought I did... Nope, apparently I missed it. Damnable tiny font. My bad, Blake. __

RE: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

> One thing that's missing is that AvantGo has an on-line browsing mode, > whereas Plucker doesn't. Including some places where Plucker isn't as > good as AvantGo will help to impart the illusion of impartiality. ;) You didn't read down far enough, did you see the "Online Mode" section

RE: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

> http://www.plkr.org/a-vs-p.html > Feel free to help add the bullet items to compare them. One thing that's missing is that AvantGo has an on-line browsing mode, whereas Plucker doesn't. Including some places where Plucker isn't as good as AvantGo will help to impart the illusion of impartiality

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I've just read > & 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: ht

www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

I've just read & 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). One question that keeps occurring to me is: why is it better to have a Plucker-format parser on th