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robinson · 03-30-2006, 05:45 AM

Hi, all! I've been pulling space.com/news for a while now using iSilo, but I still have Avantgo running and fetching it, too.

The main reason I prefer Avantgo is that when you click on a story headline, you immediately get the story, at the top of the page, without having to scroll or tap your way down the page!

With iSilo "plucking" the page, I do get more headlines and stories, but when I tap on one, the next page requires 9-10 taps to bring the first line of story to the top! If I enable table layout I can reduce this to 7-8, but that doesn't work well because I use a larger font and I have to scroll left and right.

I should note that I've been using

http://feeds.feedburner.com/spaceheadlines with a link of 1 and no filters. I used to use http://www.space.com/news/

Any solutions?

I'm particularly interested in getting this working as I discovered that Avantgo doesn't update space.com that often... well, put it more concretely, it's been stuck at March 18 for more than 10 days now, while all other channels have been updating!

03-30-2006, 05:45 AM	#13
robinson Zealot Posts: 142 Karma: 997293 Join Date: Jan 2003	Fetching space.com and getting the stories to be at the top... how? Hi, all! I've been pulling space.com/news for a while now using iSilo, but I still have Avantgo running and fetching it, too. The main reason I prefer Avantgo is that when you click on a story headline, you immediately get the story, at the top of the page, without having to scroll or tap your way down the page! With iSilo "plucking" the page, I do get more headlines and stories, but when I tap on one, the next page requires 9-10 taps to bring the first line of story to the top! If I enable table layout I can reduce this to 7-8, but that doesn't work well because I use a larger font and I have to scroll left and right. I should note that I've been using http://feeds.feedburner.com/spaceheadlines with a link of 1 and no filters. I used to use http://www.space.com/news/ Any solutions? I'm particularly interested in getting this working as I discovered that Avantgo doesn't update space.com that often... well, put it more concretely, it's been stuck at March 18 for more than 10 days now, while all other channels have been updating! Last edited by robinson; 03-30-2006 at 05:50 AM.