I've just gotten a Nextel phone that has a microbrowser built in. It seems to be pretty usable, inasmuch as anything with a 6x16 display can be. I'd like to be able to check a few basic perlmonks.org things over it, such as headlines, current writeups/XP, maybe what's in the chatterbox.

We have XML interfaces into all this stuff, so I'm thinking of writing either a minaturized HTML or WAP portal for Perlmonks. I'm looking for suggestions as to how this may best be presented, since my user interface skills are, well, lamer than hell.

Ideally, of course, it would be integrated into the site, but I don't really imagine that vroom has the time to do this. I'm imaging a page on my system at home, that would yank the XML, format as appropriate, WAPify if necessary/desired, and display.

Input from anyone with any experience in this sort of thing, or who just has some good ideas, would be greatly appreicated.

--Chris

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In reply to WAP/Microbrowser Interface to Perlmonks.org by jcwren

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