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Title: What is the best solution to offline web page browsing?
Post by: ZDevil on April 21, 2004, 12:45:10 am

Hi all,

As a new Zaurus user (c860), I would like to know what is the best solution to view/rip online materials and browse them on Zaurus.  I  am now using Plucker to convert stuff on PC and then open them by Just Reader on Zaurus.  But I don\'t think Plucker fares as well as iSilo on palm/ppc in terms of dealing with links and reformatting, and it just takes a rather long time to open relatively large file in JustReader.  A solution like iSilo will be a godsend to me and my zaurus.  Thanks.

Title: What is the best solution to offline web page browsing?
Post by: Stubear on April 21, 2004, 03:04:34 am

Try Opie-reader instead of JustReader, I\'ve found it much faster for large files - especially plucker.

Stu

Title: What is the best solution to offline web page browsing?
Post by: ZDevil on April 21, 2004, 03:07:13 am

Thanks.  But can I use Opie-reader on original Sharp ROM (just new to zaurus and not using the new roms)?  Is it stable to run on this ROM?  Thanks again.

Title: What is the best solution to offline web page browsing?
Post by: mikew on April 21, 2004, 05:49:23 am

Have you considered clicking File & save as from Explorer & copy file & directory over to the Zaurus, you can then open the page on the Zaurus by selecting the file.

Works well if you have a PC & you only require occasional access to pages, I always use it to keep details of places I plan to visit or Zaurus HowTos.

Mike

Title: What is the best solution to offline web page browsing?
Post by: tumnus on April 21, 2004, 06:11:00 am

I use WWWOFFLE myself: http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=301 (http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=301)

It can cache everything you look at on the Zaurus while you have an internet connection and let you browse it while disconnected. It can also be setup to fetch a batch of websites for offline browsing.

It works as a proxy server so it plays well with Opera and can be configured via its own web pages.

Title: What is the best solution to offline web page browsing?
Post by: Stubear on April 21, 2004, 06:41:02 am

Quote

Thanks.  But can I use Opie-reader on original Sharp ROM (just new to zaurus and not using the new roms)?  Is it stable to run on this ROM?  Thanks again.

I\'ve been using Opie-reader -get the latest from the authors home page or ZSI - on my C760 since I got it in August last year. I\'m using the Original sharp rom too.

Stu

Title: What is the best solution to offline web page browsing?
Post by: ZDevil on April 21, 2004, 09:51:08 am

Thanks!  Gonna try Opie Reader and JPluck (which claims to be able to convert web sites and RSS and Atom feeds to Plucker documents).  I\'m very enthusiatic about building up a library in my Zaurus as I did to my palm.  

Title: What is the best solution to offline web page browsing?
Post by: seven11 on April 21, 2004, 12:05:51 pm

...for viewing html-content offline with my zaurus.
every morning at 6am my SuSE-box is triggert by cron to fetch my pre-configured websites with sitescooper.
Sitescooper is a really great tool for fetching sites automaticly and format them into either doc, isilo (not preferred for Z), compact html or plain txt.
I let them format into a single, large html page which is very good viewable with konqueror or justreader(i should try it with opera also)
Its great! give it a try:
www.sitescooper.org