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Sunrise 0.1 released
Sunrise is my new tool for converting web sites and newsfeeds for offline reading on your handheld.
Essentially, Sunrise is a much-improved version of JPluck, you should definitely check it out:
Sunrise Quick Tour, contains many screenshots. Update: Sunrise 0.2.1 (2004-08-26) now available. Better desktop integration and a handy New Item Wizard. Also, major bugfixes for cookies and HTML detection. Download from PalmGear More information: Frequently Asked Questions Last edited by Laurens; 08-27-2004 at 10:24 AM. Reason: Added Quick Tour |
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Laurens, I haven't looked at it yet, but the screenshots look great - and judging from your programming skills (JPluck), I am sure Sunrise is going to be a hit!
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This looks exciting, thanks for the news. I have to admit that you've peaked my curiosity for your final product. Thanks for releasing the early versions for Plucker. I'm sure the community will appreciate that.
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Very nice Laurens. Really looking forward to your new viewer. I am sure it will be a hit because you are an awesome programmer and you provide us with some really nice links like NYT, BBC, CNET and Reuters. Isilox does not even support rss feeds but Sunrise does and that makes all the difference. I hope there is some support for anti-aliased fonts in the future. Plucker supports this but I am not sure if Palm OS 6 will make this easiear for programmers to develop.
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Laurens,
I started playing with Sunrise and I would like to know how to use the jxl files on your web site with the Sunrise desktop? Sunrise loads way faster that jpluck. Last edited by mercedes; 08-19-2004 at 02:55 PM. |
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In the future, I want to provide an online Showcase where people can upload and share their SDL definitions. There should also be an option to automatically synchronize your SDL with the latest online copy. (I.e. "check for updates".) This ensures that you always have the most up-to-date definitions. (I always get a barrage of e-mail when the New York Times changes something on their site that causes the JXL to stop working correctly. I want to avoid that in the future.) Quote:
Startup might become a bit slower once you have more downloads in the cache, though. I've not optimized the startup procedure yet, so there's some gain to be made here. |
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Could there be a way to import .jxl into .sdl?
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So if I understand you right, Laurens, you're developing something new along the lines of Plkr and iSilo?
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Yes, my viewer will be similar to Plucker and iSilo. It has a twist, though, but I can't reveal what that is at this point. I don't want to give the competition any good ideas.
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Heh I am sure you already made them so curious they are waiting like vultures
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Hey Laurens, I've replaced Jpluck with Sunrise and have been very happy so far. It does seem to work better for me than Jpluck. Is there a "PluckThis" style extension available for Sunrise? That's the only reason that I need to keep Jpluck around at all just now...
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I've tried the original Sunrise, and now the 0.2 version, and both fail to get through the first document I've created (the online copy of the FreeBSD handbook, if anyone is curious =). I've tried it under 2000, XP, and 2003, all with the latest service packs and patches installed. It gets about 80% of the way through (grinding the machine to an absolute halt), then throws a Java exception (org.eclipse.swt.SWTException, Failed to execute runnable (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument cannot be null)), and the whole thing closes itself. Nice.
But the UI looks fairly nice. Unfortunately it uses SWT. Most Java professionals will tell you to stay miles away from that if you ask them, because it is implemented with native binaries, thus destroying Java's portability (more here). SWT is no more responsive than well-written Swing. At least there are alternatives to using that, and the JPluck project is definately not going to be dying anytime soon. I can't reveal our plans, but Sunrise will have a huge amount of healthy competition very soon, and the JPluck codebase will be retrofit, renamed, and relicensed to allow a lot more contributors to help out with the new project. |
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All the same, I will add an option so that you can configure the maximum amount of memory that the VM can allocate. Currently, it's fixed at 128Mb, which should be plenty for typical documents. I had to push it over 300Mb for the FreeBSD document to convert, which only goes to show how flawed the core JPluck library really is. For the sake of comparison: when I convert the FreeBSD document to my own viewer's format, the memory usage spikes at 30Mb. Quote:
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