I'm relatively new to Plucker, but am an experienced Visor power user who supports over a hundred Palm and Visor users in a large law firm. I've implemented our entire Palm platform support and rolled out the various application installs, and thus could use some help: We keep our firm's internal phone directory on the intranet as an HTML table (generated as an .ASP but easily plucked), and am currently trying/testing/comparing iSilo vs. Plucker for our attorneys to have easy mobile access to the directory.
Here's what I've done, and where I'm banging my head against the wall a bit -- perhaps someone can nudge me in the right direction here: I'm using Plucker viewer 1.2beta13 on my Visor Platinum and Plucker Desktop for Windows v. 1.2.0.2 (build Sept. 28, 2002). 1) Problem: I've configured both iSilo and Plucker so that the long HTML table is rendered in a single table on the Palm, separated by lines between fields (which is so much easier to read than horizontal table scrolling). In iSilo, the table is a single long page which makes it easy and fast to search and scroll through. In Plucker, it seems to be breaking it into a number of sections or pages, which while searchable, adds more hoops to jump through (can't just scroll through it, and the search option in the viewer has to be set to search all pages). And I noticed that Plucker has a very noticeable delay while reading/rendering the partial pages/sections (several seconds at least), whereas iSilo does not. Q: In the interest of keeping this drop-dead simple to use (attorneys aren't famous for being tech whizzes, although we have a few good mavericks in the mix), is there any way to have it plucked as a single long document? I realize this may add to the performance hit, but I still need to try it for comparison. Also, is there any way to minimize the performance hit on the Palm viewer while rendering? 2) On a personal use note, I have a Visor Platinum with a MemPlug Smartmedia Springboard. I've successfully moved Plucker docs over to the card and re-synced the doc list. Q: However, is there an option for installing/syncing plucked docs *directly* to the SM card? (Some of our attorneys also have the newer Palms with the SD card slot and this would benefit them as well.) Otherwise, it has to take up the PDA's RAM and requires a manual copy to the card. Thanks in advance, all replies greatly appreciated. This will really help my analyis of which offline HTML/doc reader will best fit our needs, iSilo or Plucker. Jeff Beard Legal Technologist Quarles & Brady LLP Milwaukee, WI USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Bonus question: Besides the nice list of links in the Plucker materials, where can one find the various Palm-formatted and AvantGo-formatted versions of mainstream web sites, ready for the Plucking? ;^) _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
