Blogging on Tapwave’s Zodiac
Lonnie at Tribblescape has found another reason to purchase the Tapwave Zodiac…Blogging. He may just have the first documented case of blogging using Moveable Type’s web interface on Zodiac’s included web browser. It all seemed to work fine, at the Zodiac end at-least.
The Tapwave Zodiac is known by most to be a gaming platform, but many gamers do not realize that at it’s core is a full-powered PalmOS PDA and capable of many important bizniz-type things…like blogging. Lonnie, keep up the great work in documenting the effective uses of the Tapwave Zodiac.
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Although I have been having some problems with the browser. Currently, whether you choose to connect or not when starting the application, it crashes with a cryptic spew of hexadecimal, requiring a soft reset of the Zodiac. Even after the reset, the browser crashes the handheld again. I can’t think of anything I’ve installed that might have caused the problem, so I think I might toss this one to Tapwave support so they can toss it to Access (the folks who wrote the NetFront browser, upon which Tapwave’s browser is based).
My short-range moblogging is at something of a standstill until I can figure out how to keep the browser from crashing. Next thing I’ll try is deleting the browser app entirely and reinstalling; perhaps whacking the preferences and stored data for the browser and starting from scratch will allow it to work again.
I’ve also got some issues with the way the browser renders CSS, which is to say, terribly. It does a decent job with basic character formatting, but positioning confuses the heck out of the browser, often resulting in pages in which the text is cut off on the left side of the screen. Unfortunately, my own site is formatted entirely in CSS, as well as many sites I visit on a regular basis, which is disappointing, to say the least.
However, it’s still the best browser I’ve seen on a handheld, and PalmSource has adopted the NetFront engine as its official browser for Palm OS 6, so I can only hope that newer versions will be an improvement. I have yet to see a Palm OS browser even come close to NetFront in ability to render complex pages. The only thing the browser needs to make me happy is for it to render CSS 2 as well as it handles tables.