Tried Plucker? Here's some of the advantages over AvantGo:
- Plucker has two forms of compression (zlib/doc), AvantGo does not.
- Plucker supports 10 languages, AvantGo does not.
- Plucker supports local files (file://tmp/foo.txt) and intranet (including https://) content, AvantGo does not.
- Plucker supports runtime image scaling via the parser (altmaxwidth, altmaxheight), AvantGo does not.
- Plucker is an 85k footprint on the Palm, AvantGo 4.0 is 399k, without content.
- Plucker supports Gestures, Autoscroll, Tap Navigation, and Hardware button configuration options, AvantGo does not.
- Plucker is free and open source, under the GNU General Public License, AvantGo is not.
- Plucker uses an openly-documented data structure format, AvantGo does not.
- Plucker works on 11 platforms, 5 operating systems (with varying degrees of difficulty), AvantGo supports 1.5 OS' (Windows, and "almost" Macintosh).
- Plucker does not "restrict" what websites can do with their own content, AvantGo does.
- Plucker supports multiple instances of the same content (NYTimes with images, NYTimes with color, NYTimes without images) loaded at the same time, AvantGo does not.
- You can beam your Plucker content to another Plucker user, with AvantGo you cannot.
- Plucker offers 5 font choices, AvantGo offers two.
I actually wrote a node on this, to help try to recruit some perl help for some parts of Plucker. Any interested monks with some spare time to lend a hand or some creative insight? | [reply] |
Re: Palm Perl - I'm not sure what the status on this is, but it was mentioned earlier at PERL on a Palm? | [reply] |