[nrapallo]

I like the tone of this thread!

And I like your distaste for too small or too large a font size as well as the fact that you are considering hacking that mobipocket.jar.

This is one of the reasons I got an iLiad, so that I could hack it a bit. While I don't know how to program in java, I can become a quick study with some help from this community.

Here's a partial peak at that decompiled cl.class:

/* cl - Decompiled by JCavaj
 * Visit http://www.bysoft.se/sureshot/jcavaj/
 */
import java.awt.Font;

public final class cl
{
    public static final int[] kk
	= { 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 28, 32 };
    public static int[] kl = null;
    
    public final cn a(String string, int i, boolean bool, boolean bool_0_,
		      boolean bool_1_) {
	return new cn(new Font(string, (bool ? 1 : 0) + (bool_0_ ? 2 : 0), i),
		      bool_1_);
    }
    
    public final String do() {
	return "Monospaced";
    }

    ...

Now what else could be hacked?

Originally I tried to hack into the java system-wide defaults/parameters in the file "system.properties" within the "/home/intent/rofs_target.bin" to "activate" the proxy server settings within Mobipocket reader, but it had no effect. I wanted the Mobipocket Reader to access the internet from hyperlinks embedded within .prc ebooks.

The "system.parameters" is a config file and the network related parameters used by the tao-group's java implementation on the iLiad follow: (it looks almost ready to "use", but it's commented out)

#---- network related Properties ----

# mime Types
net.mimeDecoder=uk.co.tao.net.www.SimpleMime

# Only used if the mime decoder is 'uk.co.tao.net.www.SimpleMime'
net.simpleMimeFile=/uk/co/tao/net/www/SimpleMime.txt

# list of package prefixes for class names to use for URL stream handlers
java.protocol.handler.pkgs=uk.co.tao.net.www.protocol
# list of package prefixes for class names to use for content handlers (URL.getContent())
java.content.handler.pkgs=uk.co.tao.net.www.content

# proxy setting

# warning: the default value for http.proxySet is true for compatibility with 1.1 
# which does not define this key.
# Also, some third party http protocol handler implementations only use the 1.1 
# keys so setting http.proxyset to false may not work if an invalid host is 
# in http.proxyHost
http.proxySet=false

# the host doing the proxying
#http.proxyHost=proxyhost

# the port listening to proxy request on that host. 
# Default value is 80 but proxies are often installed at 8080
#http.proxyPort=8080

# list of hosts to access directly via http (pipe separated list)
#http.nonProxyHosts=nphost1|nphost2|nphost3

# for http connection caching, the maximum connections to cache
http.maxConnections = 5

# for http connection caching, the default connection timeout in seconds
http.defaultConnectionTimeout = 15

Any insights here?