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Originally Posted by Pride Of Lions
The attached thumbnail shows what appears to be the much-promised Palm OS 6 (yes, code-named "Cobalt." I liked numbered designations better, you know which one is latest and such.)
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Its a plain-jane T3 device, not Cobalt at all. Maybe AvantGo tried to make it look like Cobalt, but IMHO, they failed. The whole UI makes no sense. They have PalmOS-based menus (accessed via the normal tap-on-Menu-button option), then they have those tabs, and inside those tabs, more dropdowns. Its a real nightmare, and a horrible waste of functional space that could be better served by showing
actual content.
They also removed the ability to change fonts into anything usable. It is here that things like Plucker really excel, with the ability to use anti-aliased fonts (see attached screenshots). I don't know if iSilo can do this, but iSilo doesn't handle HTML very well at all, so I don't even compare the two.
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Anyway, Mark/Space is working on a beta of their Missing Sync for Palm 4.0 that includes an AvantGo conduit. I'm trying it right now, and I have to say, I do miss the simplicity of just HotSync-ing some content onto my Zodiac2 (and have ever since AG decided not to support Mac OS X back in 2002, was it?)
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MarkSpace has done a great job of wrapping a slick commercial front-end around our Free Software libraries (
pilot-link). They continue to maintain their conduit back-end in their own code, however (that isn't really our area of focus).
With my latest release of pilot-link, MarkSpace's product is even faster over the network, and more stable with newer devices. Its really improving well. 4.0.3 is based on pilot-link 0.12.0, and previous versions are based on pilot-link 0.11.8. Well done, and kudos to them for maintaining an even keel with the licensing.