[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia on PDAs (was J2ME Client for Wikipedia)

Sun Dec 4 01:29:28 UTC 2005

On 4 Dec 2005, at 01:03, David Gerard wrote:

> Carl Witty wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 02:39 -0500, S. Woodside wrote:
>
>>> Wikipedia actually displays pretty well in mobile browsers.
>
>> Well, some mobile browsers, perhaps...it's quite broken on my Treo  
>> 650
>> (the entire article text is rendered one-character-per-line,
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>
> Palm browsers are notoriously shit and almost not worth bothering  
> with.
> The browser in User:Redcountess' Zire 72s (PalmOS 5.2.8 with  
> Novarra Web
> Pro 3.5) does okay on en: Wikipedia (I even posted to the sandbox with
> it!), but the one on User:Arkady Rose's Tungsten C (PalmOS 5.2.1 with
> PalmSource Web Browser 2.0) - which would otherwise be *ideal* for
> Wikipedia, given it's got inbuilt wifi and is basically a handheld
> wardriving appliance ;-) - looks like utterly misrendered dogshit.
>
> The Treo 650 runs PalmOS 5.4.x - what browser and version does it  
> include?
>
> The only problem with Web Pro 3.5 is that it doesn't do UTF-8  
> characters
> at all, so it's only really usable on a language that works in 7-bit
> (such as en:). Otherwise it was great. I know you can buy 3.0 or  
> 3.5 as
> an upgrade for the Tungsten C, so you might be able to get something
> less shit for the Treo.
>
> I'm currently writing [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia on PDAs]], and will be
> uploading photos demonstrating the above in a while. Others are  
> heartily
> encouraged to add their own experiences and photos.

This is something I have been meaning to spend some time on.

I have mobile Opera on Sony Ericsson P900 and its ok but the clutter
around the information detracts rather. Not sure what the UTF-8 like,
will check.

Justinc