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Originally Posted by Alexander

[*]documents > 32Kb are fragmented into 32Kb parts (where you get the "click for next page" link at the bottom of each part)

They are now seamed together, if you configure it as such. Fixed.

[*]uncompressed images can only be <60Kb

A Palm limitation, which can be worked around in various ways. Fixed.

[*]no table support (in latest CVS: table support, rudimentary due to limited 60Kb space)

What version were you testing? Tables have been supported for at least the last 3 releases of Plucker.

[*]auto-scrolling cannot keep up with normal reading speed unless scroll speed is set to more pixels, at which point the text becomes too jumpy

Again, what version did you try? Users report a HUGE increase in speed of the scrolling over previous versions. Try one of the latest stable or unstable releases.

[*]slow screen updates[*]slow scroll bar response time[*]search text algorithm slow

Ditto, see above.
[*]change in font causes page to rep**** and restart from the top again

Fixed.

[*]applications lose focus when Plucker updates channels (also in scheduling mode)

I have no idea what this means. Palm can only run one application at a time, so I'm not sure how it can "lose focus".

[*]only single URL include pattern

What does this mean? You can include any number of URLs you wish, or exclude any number of URLs you wish, verbosely, or via a regex, or other methods. Always have, always will.

[*]high ram memory consumption while downloading (Plucker Desktop)

It probably keeps the pages cached in memory. My perl version strips non-visible elements from the content and packs them into a binary in the array, while parsing, to reduce the memory footprint required to manage the pages.

[*]font support is incomplete for OS5 machines such as Sony NX, NZ, TG, Tungsten

This sounds like a Palm bug. We support whatever fonts they provide, and include our own high-resolution fonts as well.

[*]doesn't do double-density fonts (someone with OS 5 confirm please)

What does this mean?

[*]doesn't handle cookies (allowing, disabling, manual setting)

This sounds like a p****r problem, not a Plucker problem. Use a p****r that supports cookies. There are at least a dozen that support Plucker as an output file format.

[*]doesn't handle forms

There is some discussion about how to implement this, but so far, we haven't received any patches from people interested in making it work.

[*]doesn't handle java-scripts

Javascript, as you know, must be executed to be interpreted. It isn't "p****d" like HTML. Adding a javascript-rendering engine to the p****r or the viewer is wasteful and unnecessary. Don't plan on this ever being in Plucker.

[*]doesn't support non-html yet common tags like pods://avantgo/back

We support industry-standard HTML and text constructs, per the requisite RFC. Show me where the 'pods://' protocol is documented in an RFC, and we will consider adding it.

[*]no Pocket PC version available

You mean besides Vade Mecum, the PocketPC version of Plucker?

[*]indentation for bulleted/numbered lists is wrong, the text is not properly aligned

This may be fixed, but I haven't tested it. Try 1.6.2 or 1.7 or one of the hourly snapshots and find out. If it isn't, please report it in the bugtracker, so we can track and fix it.

[*]no Internet Explorer integration

There are at least 3 third-party utils that let you right-click in IE and select "Send to Plucker" or similar options. There is also a Mozilla extension that does something similar.

[*]no Unicode (specifically UTF-8 encoding) support

Plucker supports UTF-8, and has for quite some time now. Perhaps your p****r is the problem?

[*]no multi-threaded download of webpages

Also a p****r problem. I can pull roughly 1,000 webpages in about 4 minutes with my Perl p****r. I know the Java version can do the same in about 8-9 minutes. I haven't benchmarked the Python one though. It definately is grabbing the content in parallel.

(Incidentally, your forum software is neutering 'p-a-r-s-e-r' with asterisks. You might want to whitelist that word)