norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2004/04/04/specsonpalmhttp://norman.walsh.name/2004/04/04/specsonpalm/comments.atom2012-05-22T18:31:21.012235ZComment 1 on /2004/04/04/specsonpalmhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012004-04-04T23:55:28Z2004-04-04T23:55:28ZDennis McCunneyda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

It's nice to see someone else who uses thier PDA as a portable reference library for tech stuff. Since most of the software I deal with as a Unix SysAdmin has HTML documentation available, I do the same.

But instead of iSilo, may I suggest an alternative?

I use a product called Plucker. Plucker is free software, open source under the GNU Public License. There is a Plucker Viewer (written in C) which runs on your PalmOS device, and a Plucker desktop, written in Python, which parses HTML pages and creates PDB files which can be displayed by the viewer. There is also a version of the desktop written in Java, so you can run the desktop on most platforms.

Plucker runs fine on my old Visor Pro, reading documents off a 256MB CF card ina MemPlug CF adapter. I expect it to continue to run fine when I upgrade to a newer device. (Soon, I suspect: the Pro is showing its age. I'd have done so sooner save that hacks aren't supported under OS5, and too much of my setup relies on them.)

You can find Plucker at http://www.plkr.org.

[Dennis]

Comment 2 on /2004/04/04/specsonpalmhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022004-04-05T01:26:38Z2004-04-05T01:26:38ZAlastair Rankineda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Typo in the href for REC-xml.marks (points to .ixl instead).

Comment 3 on /2004/04/04/specsonpalmhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00032004-04-05T09:21:57Z2004-04-05T09:21:57ZSjoerd Visscherda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Isn't there an HTML viewer for Palm devices?

Opera's small screen rendering displays W3C's standards perfectly on my P800.

Comment 4 on /2004/04/04/specsonpalmhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00042004-04-07T12:49:30Z2004-04-07T12:49:30ZNorman Walshda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

I took plucker for a quick test drive. It's not useful until it supports documents that are UTF-8 encoded, but otherwise looks promising.

And I fixed the broken link; thanks Alastair.

Comment 5 on /2004/04/04/specsonpalmhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00052004-04-07T12:52:39Z2004-04-07T12:52:39ZNorman Walshda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

As to the question of an HTML viewer, yes I think there are, though I have yet to find a good one. The advantage that tools like iSilo and Plucker have over a simple HTML viewer is that they compile all the files and images into a single database. That's easier to transfer and keep on the Palm device.

Comment 6 on /2004/04/04/specsonpalmhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00062004-04-14T08:08:13Z2004-04-14T08:08:13ZDave Pawson

Any idea why the second version fails on xquery-operators Norm?

Pulls xpath2 xslt2 fine, yet http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators matches 0 items.

which isn't right, since the spec exists.