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gel 2008-07-17 08:03

Offline browsing
 
im sorely dissapointed in the fact that after 1 Year of owning my n800 and enjoying most of the benefits,i still cant just pop in an .exe application and wacko i can download todays news offline,it really pisses me off,im not tech savey,i just want to read the news offline(just like avantgo/world offline) all pda applications.with all your experience why ,why,why

piku 2008-07-17 10:18

Re: Offline browsing
 
You've tried using the RSS reader, haven't you?

tso 2008-07-17 10:56

Re: Offline browsing
 
hmm, sounds like he wants to download the webpages that rss feeds link to...

i recall such a app being worked on, but i cant recall what it was called right now...

found it:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...51&postcount=3

seems it have not been updated in a while, but should still work as its a python app...

nope, spoke too soon. i gave it a spin and it fails to add feeds :(

piku 2008-07-17 10:59

Re: Offline browsing
 
Ah right. That's going to be difficult since the N800's web browser won't even start up unless there is an Internet connection. I discovered this when trying to use the Google Gears plugin.

brontide 2008-07-17 10:59

Re: Offline browsing
 
Much like modest, doesn't the browser get cranky if run "offline"

tso 2008-07-17 11:08

Re: Offline browsing
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by piku (Post 203939)
Ah right. That's going to be difficult since the N800's web browser won't even start up unless there is an Internet connection. I discovered this when trying to use the Google Gears plugin.

when did that start happening?

i dont have much problem opening up the browser while offline...

lazuli 2008-07-17 15:45

Re: Offline browsing
 
offline browsing is ok for me too. got lotsa html format ebooks and the browser handles them well, though screen scrolling seems to be broken, it only selects texts.

timsamoff 2008-07-17 15:57

Re: Offline browsing
 
Me too. ^

-T.

allnameswereout 2008-07-17 22:11

Re: Offline browsing
 
Sometimes its possible to run a database on a local webserver. For example with Wikipedia this is possible. Although one can also convert the SQL (or) XML data to 'dict' format allowing the command line 'dict' to access Wikipedia information. I don't know any other examples besides Wikipedia though.

PinCushionQueen 2008-07-18 13:50

Re: Offline browsing
 
I can view anything I want offline - but I use KDE/Konqueror instead of Microb :D


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