I've been using Plucker off and on for a while, and it's great. While the WristPDA is a little small for reading
really long pages, it's great for those quickie blog entries from around the web. Sunrise seems a bit redundant (Plucker can handle RSS, which
seems to be what many are using Sunrise for), but there are a few tricks it will do... For instance, there's a Mozilla
extension that'll allow you to quickly send a page to Sunrise for later offloading to your PDA. In Plucker this takes
several steps (unless I'm missing something). There is also some scripting support, from URI rewriting to dynamic
document properties. Sunrise also uses Rhino as a scripting engine inside the SDL's you create. While you won't have
full JavaScript functionality, it does provide some core objects. There is a handy walkthrough at MobileRead's forums.
Unfortunately, the original docs are missing, though I found them through the magic of the Internet Archives. See the
old FAQ
here. One thing I learned: Sunrise was written by the same person who wrote JPluck, which makes sense, as Sunrise is a Java app and essentially JPluck
2). And supposedly Sunrise is intended to become a commercial app. It doesn't appear to exist yet though, but there's a
tiny bit of info here, where author Laurens
explains why the Palm OS is a dead end for Sunrise... So is anybody out there using this thing, or the commercial
version?Sunrise, Freaky Friday Find
I've been using Plucker off and on for a while, and it's great. While the WristPDA is a little small for reading
really long pages, it's great for those quickie blog entries from around the web. Sunrise seems a bit redundant (Plucker can handle RSS, which
seems to be what many are using Sunrise for), but there are a few tricks it will do... For instance, there's a Mozilla
extension that'll allow you to quickly send a page to Sunrise for later offloading to your PDA. In Plucker this takes
several steps (unless I'm missing something). There is also some scripting support, from URI rewriting to dynamic
document properties. Sunrise also uses Rhino as a scripting engine inside the SDL's you create. While you won't have
full JavaScript functionality, it does provide some core objects. There is a handy walkthrough at MobileRead's forums.
Unfortunately, the original docs are missing, though I found them through the magic of the Internet Archives. See the
old FAQ
here. One thing I learned: Sunrise was written by the same person who wrote JPluck, which makes sense, as Sunrise is a Java app and essentially JPluck
2). And supposedly Sunrise is intended to become a commercial app. It doesn't appear to exist yet though, but there's a
tiny bit of info here, where author Laurens
explains why the Palm OS is a dead end for Sunrise... So is anybody out there using this thing, or the commercial
version?
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1-27-2006 @ 11:18AM
Leslie Franke said...
Sunrise is has been superseded by Sunrise XP which is currently in early development but works quite well. The developer is no longer going to make Sunrise XP a commercial app but will release it as freeware. Some upcoming features include Flickr, del.icio.us, and Bloglines web service integration, as well as, a Firefox extension for Sunrise XP. I am one of those users who use Sunrise. I find it to be a more simple and powerful version of the Plucker desktop.
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