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Mr. X · 03-16-2010, 07:19 PM

I managed to port http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~tt...iaOffline.html to the DR 3.0 architecture. It allows you to browse a wikimedia site off of local storage with semi-marked up text but no graphics (see pic for example).

Unfortunately, the web browser on the DR goes online when there's any network access, even to localhost (127.0.0.1). It won't open local URLs at all in airplane mode, or presumably on an 800S... Until there's a solution to this running web-based apps locally (was also thinking of porting a little wiki till we get note taking) is suboptimal

For the adventurous/curious:

Install the following support packages onto your SD card (each is self-contained and creates a single folder in Programs/. To remove just delete):

Then grab the Wiktionary program from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ecronin/tmp/Wiktionary.zip (warning, 350MB) and decompress it to the SD card as well. Browse the SD card and run it from Programs. All in all it takes about 1.2GB of storage

For me this was a fun excuse to get a handle on the quirks of porting existing stuff to the iRex, but I don't plan to polish it up any further unless erbrowser gets an offline mode that would make it practical. If anyone's interested in hacking on it the source is all in that Wiktionary.zip file.

Aard (http://aarddict.org/) looks more promising as an offline wiktionary/wikipedia viewer, but would require someone writing a different GUI to it in pyGTK, the current one is pyQT...

03-16-2010, 07:19 PM	#1
Mr. X Connoisseur Posts: 68 Karma: 64 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Philadelphia Device: iRex DR800SG	beta offline(ish) Wiktionary viewer for DR I managed to port http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~tt...iaOffline.html to the DR 3.0 architecture. It allows you to browse a wikimedia site off of local storage with semi-marked up text but no graphics (see pic for example). Unfortunately, the web browser on the DR goes online when there's any network access, even to localhost (127.0.0.1). It won't open local URLs at all in airplane mode, or presumably on an 800S... Until there's a solution to this running web-based apps locally (was also thinking of porting a little wiki till we get note taking) is suboptimal For the adventurous/curious: Install the following support packages onto your SD card (each is self-contained and creates a single folder in Programs/. To remove just delete): https://dsl-scm.cis.upenn.edu:8888/s....1.1-DR800.tbz https://dsl-scm.cis.upenn.edu:8888/s...+gtk-DR800.tbz https://dsl-scm.cis.upenn.edu:8888/s...DR800-mini.tbz https://dsl-scm.cis.upenn.edu:8888/s...DR800-full.tbz https://dsl-scm.cis.upenn.edu:8888/s...0.18-DR800.tbz Then grab the Wiktionary program from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ecronin/tmp/Wiktionary.zip (warning, 350MB) and decompress it to the SD card as well. Browse the SD card and run it from Programs. All in all it takes about 1.2GB of storage For me this was a fun excuse to get a handle on the quirks of porting existing stuff to the iRex, but I don't plan to polish it up any further unless erbrowser gets an offline mode that would make it practical. If anyone's interested in hacking on it the source is all in that Wiktionary.zip file. Aard (http://aarddict.org/) looks more promising as an offline wiktionary/wikipedia viewer, but would require someone writing a different GUI to it in pyGTK, the current one is pyQT...