Carl Witty wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 02:39 -0500, S. Woodside wrote:
Wikipedia actually displays pretty well in mobile browsers.
Well, some mobile browsers, perhaps...it's quite broken on my Treo 650 (the entire article text is rendered one-character-per-line, l i k e
Palm browsers are notoriously shit and almost not worth bothering with. The browser in User:Redcountess' Zire 72s (PalmOS 5.2.8 with Novarra Web Pro 3.5) does okay on en: Wikipedia (I even posted to the sandbox with it!), but the one on User:Arkady Rose's Tungsten C (PalmOS 5.2.1 with PalmSource Web Browser 2.0) - which would otherwise be *ideal* for Wikipedia, given it's got inbuilt wifi and is basically a handheld wardriving appliance ;-) - looks like utterly misrendered dogshit.
The Treo 650 runs PalmOS 5.4.x - what browser and version does it include?
The only problem with Web Pro 3.5 is that it doesn't do UTF-8 characters at all, so it's only really usable on a language that works in 7-bit (such as en:). Otherwise it was great. I know you can buy 3.0 or 3.5 as an upgrade for the Tungsten C, so you might be able to get something less shit for the Treo.
I'm currently writing [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia on PDAs]], and will be uploading photos demonstrating the above in a while. Others are heartily encouraged to add their own experiences and photos.
[cc: to wikien-l - please add your own!]
- d.
On 4 Dec 2005, at 01:03, David Gerard wrote:
Carl Witty wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 02:39 -0500, S. Woodside wrote:
Wikipedia actually displays pretty well in mobile browsers.
Well, some mobile browsers, perhaps...it's quite broken on my Treo 650 (the entire article text is rendered one-character-per-line, l i k e
Palm browsers are notoriously shit and almost not worth bothering with. The browser in User:Redcountess' Zire 72s (PalmOS 5.2.8 with Novarra Web Pro 3.5) does okay on en: Wikipedia (I even posted to the sandbox with it!), but the one on User:Arkady Rose's Tungsten C (PalmOS 5.2.1 with PalmSource Web Browser 2.0) - which would otherwise be *ideal* for Wikipedia, given it's got inbuilt wifi and is basically a handheld wardriving appliance ;-) - looks like utterly misrendered dogshit.
The Treo 650 runs PalmOS 5.4.x - what browser and version does it include?
The only problem with Web Pro 3.5 is that it doesn't do UTF-8 characters at all, so it's only really usable on a language that works in 7-bit (such as en:). Otherwise it was great. I know you can buy 3.0 or 3.5 as an upgrade for the Tungsten C, so you might be able to get something less shit for the Treo.
I'm currently writing [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia on PDAs]], and will be uploading photos demonstrating the above in a while. Others are heartily encouraged to add their own experiences and photos.
This is something I have been meaning to spend some time on.
I have mobile Opera on Sony Ericsson P900 and its ok but the clutter around the information detracts rather. Not sure what the UTF-8 like, will check.
Justinc
Justin Cormack wrote:
I'm currently writing [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia on PDAs]], and will be uploading photos demonstrating the above in a while. Others are heartily encouraged to add their own experiences and photos.
This is something I have been meaning to spend some time on. I have mobile Opera on Sony Ericsson P900 and its ok but the clutter around the information detracts rather. Not sure what the UTF-8 like, will check.
The list of languages on http://www.wikipedia.org/ quickly shows up UTF-8 rendering problems.
- d.
On 4 Dec 2005, at 16:34, David Gerard wrote:
Justin Cormack wrote:
I'm currently writing [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia on PDAs]], and will be uploading photos demonstrating the above in a while. Others are heartily encouraged to add their own experiences and photos.
This is something I have been meaning to spend some time on. I have mobile Opera on Sony Ericsson P900 and its ok but the clutter around the information detracts rather. Not sure what the UTF-8 like, will check.
The list of languages on http://www.wikipedia.org/ quickly shows up UTF-8 rendering problems.
Cyrillic and all of Europe are fine, but anything Japanese, Chinese, arabic etc is not.
Justinc
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 01:03 +0000, David Gerard wrote:
The Treo 650 runs PalmOS 5.4.x - what browser and version does it include?
The built-in browser says "palmOne Blazer v4.0" in its About box. It works quite well for dozens of web sites I've tried, except for Wikipedia.
I also have a copy of Xiino 3.4.1E; this works fine for reading Wikipedia articles. (The en front page looks a bit strange, because it keeps the two-column format, resulting in very narrow columns on the Palm screen.)
(Sorry for the delayed response.)
Carl Witty