Thread: DR800 web browsing and surfing is possible on DR800SG
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Old 03-15-2010, 02:56 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by Mr. X View Post
I'm working on porting http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~tt...iaOffline.html to run on the DR, but it requires building python and php and I'm not sure how it'll run in the limited amount of memory we have. Should clock in with a couple spare gigs on an 8GB card.
Yes, I looked at that page linked from the Wikipedia database site. I think this is the same sort of programming some guy used to put Wikipedia offline on the iPhone. The bz7 database is 5.6 GB, so if the DR800 will support a 8 or 16 GB SD card, this should work just fine.

The main problem, if this coding is anything like the iPhone version, is search and redirects. I don't think the 5.6GB tarball has anything except article text and titles. I don't think redirects work because Wikipedia maintains a separate database for redirects. I don't know if this coding on your linked page takes that into account. You might want to look into that, since that was just about the most annoying thing about the iPhone offline version: without redirects, you had to know exactly how the article was titled before searching for it or a search would fail.
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