Comments on: Universe Web Browser Beta Released
The developer recommends a full backup before installing and using as the software is considered an early beta. It is being released under the GPL and the source code will be released soon.
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RE: Excellent.
2. Tabbed browsing = AWESOME!
3. Page rendering with the font on small = nice. You can finally read a decent amount onscreen.
4. Scrolling with up/down arrows "forgets" to render text on some pages. Damn.
5. RSS reader = cool...
6. Wish you could load one tab while reading another... but is this realistic?
7. Oh well, Blazer, you lost your assignment to the rightmost button on my TX :)
8. Damn, it just froze. Still, what's the tally? Universe = 1, Blazer = 999999 :)
10. Compressing proxies, Opera Mini style would be cool for ultimate bandwidth reduction (GPRS browsing = make it much faster and less expensive).
11. "Enable one handed menu" and "Private Browsing"... makes me wonder...
12. No HTTPS, but apaprently that's coming.
Oh well, it looks pretty damn cool, and when it's done, I'd gladly pay $10 or $15 for this.
Palm TX + 1GB SD + Motorola v3x = awesomeness
RE: Excellent.
RE: Excellent (not !!)
So I had to remove it and reinstall it. (note for deleters: there are three Universe items to remove, Universe, Universe-conn and Universe-url).
This time I tried to load a smaller simpler site, and it just froze.
Again the usual procedure to remove all, reset, reinstall. Tried to load Palminfocenter, a task which did succeed but in a quite long time and with a few misses. Then switched to slashdot, and again it went into soft reset after a long while.
End of the story for Universe on my palm.
Looks like an early beta to me, not a release candidate.
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Bugs for me
I can't get anything to load at all. Ever site I try gives me an "Error: Failed to retrieve requested URL."
I looked at his site and see no way to report bugs. Anyone know how?
RE: Bugs for me
PDA's Past and Present:
Palm - IIIxe, Vx, M500, M505, Tungsten T, TX
Handspring - Edge, Platinum, Deluxe
Sony - SJ22
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RE: Bugs for me
PDA's Past and Present:
Palm - IIIxe, Vx, M500, M505, Tungsten T, TX
Handspring - Edge, Platinum, Deluxe
Sony - SJ22
Apple - MP2000, MP2100
RE: Bugs for me
Using the options button at the bottom of the screen then go to url works for me too. Interesting.
RE: Bugs for me
lots of potential
But it really badly needs javascript support. Even basic javascript is a necessity for a lot of pages.
RE: Quick comment on an old thread.
I also got Vista and Outlook 2007.
I was fed up with Palm's WM, split/reunification saga, no OS updates/vision, no firmware updates, no handhelds, 100% Treo focus.
MS WM, Vista, and Outlook offer stability. I abandoned Palm products and I forgot to say goodbye.
Glad I left before the 'Palm is for sale' rumours. Figures, another round of bullshit for Palm fans.
RE: Quick comment on an old thread.
PDA's Past and Present:
Palm - IIIxe, Vx, M500, M505, Tungsten T, TX
Handspring - Edge, Platinum, Deluxe
Sony - SJ22
Apple - MP2000, MP2100
RE: Quick comment on an old thread.
If/When there are no handhelds left, I will buy a phone with PIM functionality.
I left Palm because they are spineless fools who a) split Palm Inc b) adopted WM c) killed their handheld division ON PURPOSE, OF THEIR OWN WILL. (30% canabilization per quarter as Colligan says).
I hate them. I should never have been loyal for a decade. Look where it got us, a bunch of phones with WM. If I would have known, I would have built my life database and software collection around WM years ago. Never again.
RE: Quick comment on an old thread.
This takes turning every news item into a "i hate palm" diatribe to new lows...
Ryan, come on - kill this puppy.
JLM.
Ok, so it is a bit unstable
Anyway, some of the bugs and the slow downs are due to the old HTTP engine (which is not great). I am re-writing this. It will be much faster, much more memory efficient and it should handle errors better.
I also know where some of the crashes on startup are coming from. I also know that the rendering engine is also pretty poor (it is a 2 year old sort of "fix" to the original WAPUniverse engine, which wasn't meant to handle full web pages. I am working on a new one, also faster and prettier).
Anyway, yes, this is a work in progress. I'll through up the sources around 3pm PST (I just need to update the copyright info and zip them up) so if any other developers are interested they can take a look.
Thanks for all of the feedback.
RE: Ok, so it is a bit unstable
...now if Palm Inc. could just adopt the refreshing straightforward honesty of dkirker about the shortcomings of their beta testing......
No joy on 650
(OT: I am missing my 680 more than ever. I finally gave up on the shonky headset jack and sent the bugger back to Palm for repairs - which I did via Palm Australia, since Palm U.S. were about as helpful as tits on a bull - two weeks ago. And now I wait...)
Tim
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Treo 270 ---> Treo 650 ---> Crimson Treo 680
I love it.
Still a little buggy for my Treo 650
Also getting some basic error "can't connect" messages on basic sites, like google. I'll keep watching the site for updates, because I'm excited to find someone even trying to give us Palm users something better! [Verizon users cant use Opera Mini yet]
Also - one of the things I liked about Blazer was it tells you how much was downloading in KB. That way, if it "froze" you could see it, instead of just seeing the spinning icon. If that is something that can be added to UWB in the future, even better.
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