Skyweezer - free gateway for mobile browsers

Colin Dunstan · 12-14-2004, 09:23 AM

Skweezer is a sort of free wireless Web "gateway" that allows you display web sites in a way that's optimized for handheld devices. Images are visible and content is intelligently stacked for easier access. Looks good, give it a try for as long as it is free

hacker · 12-14-2004, 02:11 PM

More of the same...

Its just taking the site remotely, stripping tables, and adding internal redirects to keep pumping all urls clicked and followed, through their table-stripping engine. It isn't "optimized" for handhelds at all. Images aren't quantized, resized, and content isn't prepared with handheld readers in mind at all.

This is probably 15 lines of Perl, tops, to make this happen. It could (and should) be extended to clean up the HTML and remove the unnecessary attributes and tags that are not required for mobile reading on a cell or PDA.

Its an interesting idea though, but its already been done, several years ago by quite a few "mobile portal" sites.

dreamriver · 12-14-2004, 04:55 PM

This website will now allow me to get my local paper on my pda. I just use the service to get my newspaper and use that address for my iSilo to convert it to my pda! Yahoo!

Cheers!

Shackbase · 04-17-2005, 10:56 AM

i thought it was a very useful link - it would be nice if it could resize images but thumbnails of thumbnails on a pda screen may still not be useful.

--Tone

12-14-2004, 09:23 AM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Skyweezer - free gateway for mobile browsers Skweezer is a sort of free wireless Web "gateway" that allows you display web sites in a way that's optimized for handheld devices. Images are visible and content is intelligently stacked for easier access. Looks good, give it a try for as long as it is free

12-14-2004, 04:55 PM	#3
dreamriver Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 25 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Happy Valley Device: T5	This is what I Needed! This website will now allow me to get my local paper on my pda. I just use the service to get my newspaper and use that address for my iSilo to convert it to my pda! Yahoo! Cheers!

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12-14-2004, 02:11 PM	#2
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	More of the same... Its just taking the site remotely, stripping tables, and adding internal redirects to keep pumping all urls clicked and followed, through their table-stripping engine. It isn't "optimized" for handhelds at all. Images aren't quantized, resized, and content isn't prepared with handheld readers in mind at all. This is probably 15 lines of Perl, tops, to make this happen. It could (and should) be extended to clean up the HTML and remove the unnecessary attributes and tags that are not required for mobile reading on a cell or PDA. Its an interesting idea though, but its already been done, several years ago by quite a few "mobile portal" sites.

04-17-2005, 10:56 AM	#4
Shackbase Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Rockford, IL Device: Axim x30 624mhz	i thought it was a very useful link - it would be nice if it could resize images but thumbnails of thumbnails on a pda screen may still not be useful. --Tone

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