Re: proposed solution to 64k image limitation

> Then what's the maximum width of an image? I've loaded a 2000x30x8bpp > (60K) image and it displays well. It's just an image record, i.e. not an > embedded image. More importantly, how do apps like FireViewer and others view images which are 2000x2000x16bpp on the Palm? What magic are t

Re: Deleting documents while set to Manual update

> Sounds alot like CodeBase :) That's all we need, DBF support in plucker ;) Even simpler. If you're in the doclist, and delete a document, and your document preferences are set to "Manual Update", strikeout the title of the document, or change the icon to 'N/A' or something for "offline"

Deleting documents while set to Manual update

I had a thought about the problems we've seen reported when someone deletes a document from the doclist but has the preference set to "Manual update". When you delete a document from the document library, Plucker can set a flag on that database name _at deletion time_ removing it from the

Re: Why netscape? (was: Explode/unpluck error, fixed..)

> > why do we check for Netscape? > plucker/tools/explode/netscape4-plucker-helper.in Ok, let me state that a bit better... why do we check for Netscape, which seems to pass on my system (which has no Netscape) and then do nothing with it? The other thing I notice, is that our c

Explode/unpluck error, fixed..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was just going through exploding some old Plucker databases I have here using the explode tool, and noticed a small bug, which I just fixed and committed. This bug would prevent the python plucker-build from being able to reassemble unplucke

re: question about building hires under cygwin

> more problems: configure succeeds with hires and sony toolkit enabled, but > build fails: What was your configure line? On my box, native Linux, I have the Sony SDK in /usr/share/prc-tools/ssdk, and under that is Incs, so my syntax to configure is: # Ignore these two lines, the

Re: Commerical Applications

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > If you change the name and icon (viewer) and leave everything else intact, > do you still have to distribute sources? How about if you change about > screen and other text messages? If you change the icons to suit your business logos, or th

Re: To fry a fish... (was: GPL code question)

> I had to search the archives to understand what "Bluefish" was about. This > "mess" took place before I joined the list. What was in the recent mail > that this guy sent you? Right now, we can't elaborate on it in public, until we hear back from our FSF-appointed attorney regarding the

Re: To fry a fish... (was: GPL code question)

> Actually, I thought the Bluefish mess was more or less resolved last year, > but according to the mail he sent to us two days ago it seems like he > might now also "abuse" our python parser (however, I guess he didn't > really meant to reveal that in his mail:) It gets worse than that,

Re: GPL code question

> I'm hoping this is the case not because I'm going anywhere, but because I > want to make sure my code stays around as long as it's needed and doesn't > cause anyone any hassle. In general, yes, however the copyright still would be assigned to you, or to your estate in the event of your

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

> Your example is certainly compelling. I would hope that such initial > organizations are rare though; I would expect the initial designer who set > it up that way probably screwed up a lot of other things simultaneously. Projects change, mature, take on other capabilities, and certainl

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

> Your first impression was better; you missed a provided essential detail. > The solution isn't to hardcode the path, just the relative path of the > project tree... which has no need to change. The term "no need to change" isn't a good thing to rely on, however. Anything can happen in t

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

> Indeed, the Plucker Team has ignored the possibility to build plucker on > Windows. I wouldn't say we've _ignored_ it, just that none of us run Windows. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailm

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

> Of course Linux/Unix purists will make the claim that a "real" operating > system (i.e. one with little market share but with case-sensitivity) At what point was the definition of a "real" operating system defined by market share? Linux was developed to produce a "free UNIX" for PCs, no

Re: robots.txt

> I don't know if any of you have been following the bruhaha about > aggregators downloading whole websites, but I ran across the following > message from Mark Pilgrim today, and wondered if Plucker wanted to start > being a good web-citizen and honouring robots.txt. I've suggested this b

Re: CVS log message list?

> I don't suppose there's a mailing list, like > [EMAIL PROTECTED], that receives log messages for each CVS > commit? There isn't a mailing list per-se, but I get a copy of every cvs log message that is sent into the servers, procmailed into a separate folder, so I can make sure everythin

Re: http://sourceforge.net/projects/plucker/

> I came across and > but there doesn't seem to be anything > going on there. Is it an intentional placeholder or forgotten or ... ? That was originally going to be the location for Plucker, until we realized th

Re: patch to REQUIREMENTS file

> The only solutions I see are > > 1. fix gcc so it is case sensitive w.r.t. locating include files. Impossible, given the underlying filesystem (Windows) > 2. avoid modulo-case filename collisions between plucker/viewer/*.h >files and any SDK files. Right, each plucker-spec

Re: patch to REQUIREMENTS file

> But that part of the REQUIREMENTS file is for "Palm OS viewer > development". It seems to me that it ought to match what's in CVS. I agree, and it should be updated when we make a release. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: patch to viewer/configure.in

> The viewer will continue to use 2.13... I haven't seen any convincing > arguments to why 2.53 should be the required version to build the viewer. Well, there's the minor issue that 2.1x and 2.5x are _intentionally_ made incompatible (even 2.52 is purposely incompatible with 2.53) to for

Re: patch to viewer/configure.in

> Ofcourse, none of the other test statements have the double equal sign, so > I may as well commit the change :) We should also make the migration to AC_PREREQ(2.53) as well, as mentioned last week or so, and deprecate our use of 2.13. d. _

Re: Tiny Fonts and Pilrc

> PS: If we cannot reach the admins, then let's open of fork on savannah.org > since pilrc is GPL ! That's not even funny. The last thing we need is more forks. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org

Re: "Creating Teenee Tiny Fonts in OS 5"

> I think that maybe both of you misunderstood me :) No, we both understand you completely, except... > You can still use prc-tools to build a viewer that uses the font, the only > thing you cannot do without codewarrior is alter the font itself :) ...this part. If someone wants

Re: "Creating Teenee Tiny Fonts in OS 5"

> I would still have to say no, because there shouldn't be any "code" that > can only be handled if you have access to a non-free tool. I agree with Mike here, it cuts out a huge percent of the people who can build a working viewer with those capabilities and who can contribute. d. __

"Creating Teenee Tiny Fonts in OS 5"

Might be of use, given the font discussions lately: http://oasis.palm.com/dev/kb/samples/3030.cfm d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

JIU support doesn't clean up after itself

Just a quick comment that when running configure over and over and over for Plucker, the test for JIU doesn't properly clean up its temp files that are dumped into /tmp, i.e. the following test: jiutest=`cat /tmp/jiu-test.$$` After completion, that file should be immediat

Re: updated CVS for Java build of distiller

> chrish(chrish)$ autoconf > configure.in:154: warning: Cannot check for file existence when cross > compiling A fix like this might be the solution: if test -f "/Library/Java/Home"; then AC_DEFINE(ON_MACOSX) fi ..then test for ON_MACOSX, and proc

Re: not again..... question about PocketPC viewer

> Does anyone have knowledge about development of Viewer Code for the Pocket > PC? How far along is the development? Is there any functional beta or > otherwise available? The code exists, and is awaiting someone to take the initiative to port it. No, a beta does not exist, and

Re: updated CVS for Java build of distiller

> Yes, it looks like AC_ARG_VAR crept in. I think we should stick to using > 2.13 for now, too. I'll fix it. Not sure what to say about the > cross-compiling warning. I'll fix the cross-compiling warning tomorrow, easy fix. We could also just use 'test -f' instead of the AC_CHECK_FILE mac

Re: Clipboard Support?

> Anyway, as a recent AvantGo convert, I find the one thing that I really > miss in the Plucker Viewer is the ability to copy all or part of a web > page. Sometimes there's a news article, a joke, etc It works in the copy in cvs, thanks to a provided patch by Matto. d. __

Screen Scraping lawsuits?

Very interesting threads going on related to "screen scraping" (basically unauthorized spidering). Worth a read, follow the threads: http://www.mail-archive.com/advocacy%40perl.org/msg01755.html http://penderel.state51.co.uk/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20030203/016588

Re: Plucker and Palm OS 5.0

> Can you tell me if Plucker and Palm OS 5.0 are compatible? I found that > the lib file was rejected, but wondered if I did something wrong. Yes, you forgot to install the right versions. Go to hires.plkr.org and install the versions of the viewer and the newer zlib found there.

Re: great review of micro-book reader on Jeff Kirvin's site

> I rather like the bit about automagically parsing PG texts. I could > probably add that quite easily to Plucker. Project Gutenberg's texts are not all the same. I ran into this with my pgperl script (perl script to turn PG texts into Plucker docs, rewrapped and set to justify). There a

pdf2html

I just stumbled upon this while working on my Mozilla plugin: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/pdf2html/ Interesting idea, though we'd have to deal with scaling and alt-maxwidth/alt-maxheight for panning around the images, but maybe its another approach we

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

> Sure, if all you want is to convert one document. My company has a home > page with internal news, etc. with links to relevant Word documents. It > would be nice to have the home page with news and the Word documents > linked to in one pdb. Then you can turn it into a script which tak

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

> The limitation with this is that the user has to plan for this and setup > the scripts for each pdb that may have a word doc. Not at all, you can make a script that just takes a path to a Word doc as an argument and converts. > Also, last I knew, the perl scripts didn't work under wind

Re: updated preferences form

> I encourage anyone who can build a viewer from CVS to take a look at it > and let me know what you think. I'll try to devote some more time over the next week/s to get this autobuilding from cvs nightly. Can anyone pass me the URL to the requisite SDKs that are required currently? I'm o

Re: RSS feeds

> Last time I looked, XHTML, ala wired.com, is a full class XML citizen. XHTML is a reformulation of HTML4 as an XML 1.0 application. > Again I can check http://wired.com/news/technology/ as being both a > well-formed and valid XML document. You mean XHTML. That URL is providing

Re: RSS feeds

> Most content providers who use XML transform it on the server because most > browsers in use today do not support XSLT well or at all. They transform it on the server, because that's EXACTLY how it was meant to be delivered. XML is nothing more than an empty bucket, and has abs

Re: RSS feeds

> As for public XML feeds with real content, these are all but nonexistent. Here's a bunch I've found a long time ago, collected and converted into something that may or may not work on a PDA. I've been tinkering with this on and off for quite some time. http://gnu-designs.com/co

RE: robustness of html error handling and plucker

> Having said that, perhaps a better idea would be to have the parser > automatically call tidy, if it's available, so that we could leverage > other people's work. I would prefer that to be a selective option, not mandatory. That being said, anything that makes Plucker better, I

Re: ./configure... Errors...

> I'm trying to build the plucker CVS, but... If I try to make the entire > thing, meaning something like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr > --disable-palmosbuild --disable-desktopbuild --with-version=1.3 > --disable-gtkviewer, I get this: Oh, also, building in this fashion, with the comm

Re: ./configure... Errors...

> ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-palmosbuild --disable-desktopbuild > --with-version=1.3 --disable-gtkviewer, I get this: I just ran this exact command on today's cvs version, and it runs clean. Are you sure you've got the latest sources from cvs? Are you sure you ran 'autoreconf' fi

Re: OS5.2 and Graffiti 2

> Well, apparently this also affects people who upgrade to 4.1.2 .. great :P Not a problem, since Palmsource hasn't yet released a 4.1.2 that we can upgrade to, only a POSE rom image, but that doesn't do anyone any good, since they butchered the rom so it can't be flashed to a real device

Re: Help on Plucker-izing a newsbot

> Then what about my.plkr.org? It says you can pick up ready-made PDBs from > the site. That's redistribution, too. Or am I understanding this wrong? > (It isn't live yet, I know.) They are actually plucked "live", based on the user's schedule, but not stored on the server. I've got a goo

Re: Help on Plucker-izing a newsbot

> I have developed a newsbot that collects, categorizes and ranks news > stories: Have you seen NewsBlaster[1]? I've been using that for quite awhile to scrape my news for me, and I pluck it every 4 hours or so, to keep it fresh. > One feature I have added recently is to have memigo grab

Re: :-( parsing javadoc

> I would have to say that it is not illegal as written. I would have to > regard this problem as a parser bug myself. It works here with Python 2.1, fails with Python 2.2, as expected. I agree though, but the pages still don't validate =) d. ___

Re: Automating preplucked pluckings

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Did you ever have any luck with this? This is the first I've ever seen this. When did you send the original message? I don't remember seeing this perl script on the list before. Did you send it to one of the lists? > > opendir(IDIR,"d:/dev

Re: :-( parsing javadoc

> Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd> > It seems like the parser is unable to parse this line. When this line is > remove (by hand) plucker agrees to import the page into my palm. Isn't this supposed to be on three separate lines, prefixed by the encoding type?

Re: a... bug?

> I use: automake 1.6.2 and autoconf 2.5.3... Are there any known bugs about > this? Or this has been resolved in CVS; but I don't know how to get to > there Can anyone points me to there? Does it work with automake 1.5 and autoconf 2.5.2 on your system? I suspect 1.6.2 is what

Sybase acquires AvantGo for $38M

Not sure if anyone saw this[1] yet: December 20, 2002 08:30 AM Sybase to buy AvantGo By Paul Roberts update ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE COMPANY Sybase will buy AvantGo, a maker of software for mobile devices, according to a statement released Friday by Sybase. The deal, for $38 million cash

Re: Table Changes

> Is it possible to create a nightly build of the Viewer PRC with table > support, or is there such a thing already? I don't have Palm development > environment set up but I definitely want to test it for possible support > in JPluck. I could certainly do this, though, there's no guarante

re: Software Version #'s

> When I downloaded Plucker Desktop a couple of days ago, it was version > #1.2.0.2. Thank you, I've added it to the download page. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: D-pad scrolling on plkr-hires

> Well, not exactly. Because the viewer would have to be coded with the > configure script to look for D-Pad specific SDK seperate of the PalmOS > SDK, the person doing the compiling would have to already have access > to this data. *Slaps forehead* Oh yeah, that's right, my bad. d. _

Re: D-pad scrolling on plkr-hires

> But, this shouldn't be a problem much longer since I should be aquiring a > Tungsten (and access to this part of the API) to specifically bring > plucker code up to par. Hopefully soon enough the problem you describe > will be fixed. Er, ah, uhm... if Palm doesn't hand it out, and you g

Re: Still more tables

> After much groveling, and whining, and begging... I have CVS access thru > the firewall!!! Is it port 2401? Or did you use some other app to tunnel it? > Can you send me a password? Done, see private email. d. ___ plucker

Re: Software Version #'s

> I think it would be helpful if you could add the software version #'s > on the Downloads page. Great idea! ..except I have no idea how to find out what they are myself (I don't run Windows, nor do I run Macintosh), so I'll have to prod the users who have those platforms to give me that

Re: Still more tables

> David: Can I send to some screen shots for those not brave enough to try > it to look at?? Maybe for a back page on plkr.org 'til we have if more > final and in CVS?? Fire them away, private email please, and I'll put them up. d. ___ pluck

Re: Spider bug

> Looks like it isn't. I just got this with the Python included with > Plucker for Windows: There DEFINATELY is a bug related to using Python 2.2 on Linux and Windows systems that causes failures with the current Python distiller in Plucker, and I think that's what Bill is referring to,

Re: Building the viewer.

> Can someone fix this so that autoconf/autoheader gets called in the viewer > subdirectory? Run autoreconf d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

RE: Tables!!!

> > > my IIIx. I may be the only person on the web without a homepage, so, I > > > have nowhere to post them. > > Free hosting services abound. Please use. > Or email them to my home account, and I'll put them up for you, and mail > you a link back. Jeez, just ask, and I'll set you up

OS5 vs. OS5

Just an FYI.. I was at CompUSA today doing a pretty in-depth test of the Tungsten-T and the Sony NX70U/V OS5 handhelds, and I noticed something very curious.. the are not quite running the same OS. They are both branded as OS5 devices, but the Sony device was missing some libraries Palm ha

Re: Spider bug

> Getting this now on a channel that was working... What version of python? I notice that there's been a lot of people who are beginning to see trouble using Plucker with Python 2.2. I've solved this for at least 5 people by having them use Python 2.1 and _not_ Python 2.2. What v

Re: Exclusion lists (Was Re: PlkrData Alpha Up)

> Okay, is this a proposal or merely a discussion? I ask because if the > former, what I'd like to do is have PlkrData move the exclusion from > whichever source (INI or file) it is on the source, to the INI on the > destination. ..as long as you don't break existing functionality, i.e.

Re: Non-HTML (was Re: Back/foward/home function code)

> > Yes! We want in Plucker now! > I enjoyed the Python comment next to the 'blink' on the list of currently > unimplemented tags in the Parser (TextParser.py, around line 855). Props > to whoever wrote that in. Appears to be Ondrej back in Parser.py, almost to the day 11/22/99.

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

> Yes, I know different mailing lists could be created, but the whole > Plucker system needs to work together, and you may need to "jump into and > out of" different conversations to do what it is that you want to do. As long as it works directly with the mailing lists, and does not obsol

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

> It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have some > serious advantages over this mailing list: We've talked about this before. I've been wanting to create a nice search engine for the list(s) and FAQ and docs, and I have something very similar working on pilot-link.

Re: Back/foward/home function code

> No, you don't understand, I'm talking about the link *back* from C to A or > B. Look at the The Onion for example. http://mobile.thenion.com/ ^o Ugh, the worst of the offenders. There are no forms on the Onion's website, yet they

Re: Back/foward/home function code

> If you have a structure. A->C, B->C then you might actually want back > functionality. Otherwise you have to create two copies of C (A<-C1, B<-C2) > wasting bandwidth and space for what is essentially the same page. This makes no sense to me whatsoever. You don't need more than one copy

Re: Back/foward/home function code

> Because a page might want to provide back functionality through a link. This is akin to people removing titlebars, disabling right-click, and a whole host of crippling features that don't do "What You Expect(tm)" from them. If you want a page to go back, provide a normal href to the las

Re: Back/foward/home function code

> Second, the content providers may want to keep the "history back" links > because they actually want this functionality(and sometimes it does come > in handy). Browsers already provide this functionality, why should it be duplicated at the client-side in the HTML itself? I don't see the

RE: Inline launchable database icon RFC (Was RE: Plucker ChannelAddition Automation)

> > (i.e. I can take an ascii-art drawing, and create a binary icon from > > it). > By hand? Wow. ;) Of course not, with perl, silly. It's a built-in. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailma

Re: Back/foward/home function code

> Well, if support was added for the javascript version that Robert > mentioned then it wouldn't be such a big deal to support pods, too. And let's not forget, parsing Javascript doesn't mean adding a parser, like HTML (though, for small history.back() stuff, we could do easy regex/patter

RE: Inline launchable database icon RFC (Was RE: Plucker ChannelAddition Automation)

> Perhaps we could have something in the .ini file that looked more like the > icon itself? Something in the pbitm format from pilrc? One word, ick. I much-prefer the Base64 solution (for now) because it is easy encoded and can also be created on the fly, from a given textual input (i.e.

Re: Back/foward/home function code

> This way a parser can support AvantGo pods:// URLs. For instance the link > instructs Avantgo to go one page back in > its history. It would be nice if the Viewer supported this as well. There > are some AvantGo sites that use these links. (The Onion for example.) Show me where in the

Re: accesskey attribute support

> And a thanks to David for creating the openurls.plkr.org wiki site. I try > to sort at least 10 urls a day. Thank you, and thanks for helping out. I've seen your name pop up quite a bit in the revision history. > Will the wiki site ever be publicly linked to on the main website or is

OpenURLs Wiki page

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just wanted to extend a huge thank you to those kind people who have helped to add, sort, and categorize the urls found on the OpenURLS wiki page. Lots of new urls have appeared, older ones have been cleaved off, and hundreds of others have

Re: Plucker Website - nice job David

> This is missing a comma between Linux and Windows. Also has two periods > at the end. Good catch, fixed them both. > Hope you don't mind the comments :-) Nope, not at all. Keep them coming. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL

Weasel vs. Plucker on Tungsten (re: Zlib)

Rumor has it that the "Weasel Reader" application uses SysZLib.prc, and seems to work with zlib-compressed content on OS5 devices, but Plucker does not. Removing SysZLib.prc on the OS5 device causes Weasel to fail (as expected) which indicates that it is using the external .prc, and not th

~/.pluckerrc vs. ~/.plucker/desktop.ini

Can I make a small suggestion? First some background: I just noticed that after tinkering around with Plucker Desktop a few times, including deleting all of my "Channels" when I was done, left my ~/.pluckerrc in a somewhat "polluted" state of affairs. Generally, I like to keep my

Re: problems with top-level Plucker configure.in

> I agree. The problem is when I *don't* say I want to build the viewer, > and it errors out the whole configuration process, instead of simply > determining that I don't have the necessary tools, and taking the viewer > out of the list of things to be built. Ideally, sensible defaults (

Re: Updates to explode - resend without attachments

> Example two HTML: > > > Normal size > > > Example two output, correctly shown in the wxHtmlWindow: > > Normal size Just to review: # valid # valid # valid foo--># valid # valid

[Plucker 0000372]: Plucker (v1.2beta13-hires)...

http://gnu-designs.com/bugs/view_bug_page.php?f_id=372 Related to the above bug, I had a thought.. what if we set a "bookmark" (invisible to the user) to the location in the page that the user is at when they try to change the font, then when they change the font and the page redr

Re: Windows Plucker-build (was Re: Downloads available on the website - descriptions)

> Who currently builds the Windows stuff? Robert are you saying that your > Inno Setup for Plucker Desktop does everything you outlined? Are we saying > that the Windows Plucker Desktop installer is using Dirk's last build? I just installed Inno Setup and started tinkering around with th

Re: Downloads available on the web site - descriptions

> ..if we have the sources lying around. That's the crux exactly. Unless someone has the source, we're stuck. As far as I know, nobody has actually received the source Dirk is using for those tools. Anyone else happen to have the source from Dirk? > Could you add something to the Plucker

Re: dev tools

> Even if CW was available on Linux it doesn't necessarily mean I would use > it ;-) No, but it makes it immediately easier for everyone to test it against prc-tools concurrently for compatibility reasons. In any case, according to Metrowerks' higher-ups and engineers, it's never going to

Re: dev tools

> Being able to do the latter is really the only reason to consider CW. Unfortunately, until CW is either available on our platform (at a reasonable cost), or freely available on our platform (in source format), we are limited to the tools that _are_ available to us, which means prc-tools

Re: Add new tag in *.rcp

> OK, but I'm sorry I don't know the "standard" way to make Makefile from > Makefile.in. automake, of course. Welcome to my hell. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-d

Re: Downloads available on the web site - descriptions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I guess this message is for David. Ut oh =) > I was browsing the download section of the website, specifically looking > at what Windows downloads were available. > I think if I was a new user, I wouldn't know what to download. I think I

Re: Unexpected char in declaration "<" error

> The problem is msword embeds loads of pseudo directives in the form of > (something like) and Plucker is choking on > these. Is this an MSword problem or a Plucker problem? Either way I > suspect it will have to be fixed in Plucker 8^(. That's not HTML, but it's probably MS-HTML. N

Re: Superscripts (etc)

> That is one thing that has bugged me quite a bit. Bold fonts should be a > tag like italics. But that's for another thread :) , , , and other similar tags have already been deprecated in HTML, in favor of their respective font-style/etc. CSS equivalents. Should we begin supporting that

Re: Superscripts (etc)

> I think we should define a specific function code. From the viewer's point > of view these aren't TECHNICALLY fonts, it'll be easier for me to support > becuase I wouldn't have to provide an exception rule (to normal fonts) > whenever a sub/sup font appears. We _could_ make a font which

Re: Superscripts (etc)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > We could add a couple of font styles to address them. Though this is > really about two things, the font and the baseline. A simple fix would be > for the distiller to enclose them in brackets and braces. How about something like this: Whe

Re: Forms?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I know this is pushing the envelope for Plucker's initial objective, but I > feel this 2 way communication could revolutionize Plucker and the Palm Web > Browsing market. There are quite a few technical roadblocks that make adding forms sup

Re: wxWindows viewer available

> Yes, it's really cool, but can we PLEASE keep attachments off the mailing > list? I'd much rather see a link to a website with the screen shot than > have attachments brought over. 17k isn't that large, and many people appreciate being able to look at it immediately. I should whip up a

Re: Clie NX70V/PalmOS5

> Plus if there actually is a native zlib decompressor that'd be better. Don't forget this is Palm we're talking about here... I worry that they may not have gotten it right (as evidenced by their numerous "Oops, we didn't mean that" bugs introduced across their OS and SDK in a few dozen

Re: Clie NX70V/PalmOS5

> Maybe we should contact the rep from palm that wanted to make their site > plucker compatable. They might donate one? Been there, done that, no go.. same with Handspring. It's ok, those features will happen eventually, as with everything.. d. ___

Re: Clie NX70V/PalmOS5

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > If we're going to go that far as to use those libs, maybe we should be > looking at a native compile version. Also, would the OS5's > ARM->emulate->Dragonball allow access to those libs? Without a device to test on (or the $499 to buy one)

Re: Clie NX70V/PalmOS5

> Interesting. Then the NX70 is a hybrid between the silklib, hireslib, and > OS5 hires libraries, except that OS5 takes precidense. That's good atleast > :) ..and OS5 appears to contain a built-in CompressionZlib and CompressionPng library pair. We may want to compensate for that on devi

Re: dev tools

> What are the usual development tools for the viewer? Also - is it at all > possible to use CodeWarrior? Check the Tools link on the Plucker homepage for the tools. There were reports of someone porting pieces of Plucker over to using CodeWarrior, but I'm not sure how far they g

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