Geoff Burling said:
> Justin Mason's GPL'd Sitescooper. Sitescooper seems more in tune with the
> philosophy of Palm OS -- that is, being the hand-held client for a desktop
> server where the actual work gets done -- that I had a hard time of
> justifying to myself that the work I was devoting to the Palm port of Lynx
> was worthwhile labor. Especially since Justin figured out how to represent
> hypertext links, something I could not do on my own.
Just FYI -- sitescooper doesn't actually run on the Palm handheld, it's on
the sync-side, so I haven't had to get to grips with coding for the inside
of a Palm (phew!); and, unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do links
in DOC files :( (Instead what it does is retrieve documents based on
links and knowledge about the site format, then list them all in one doc
file.)
BTW it also outputs to the iSilo format as well as DOC and HTML. Now
iSilo is pretty good; it handles links, converts from HTML, is HTML-based,
and it also has a well-compressed in-memory format too. Just a shame it's
not open-source.
--j.
