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Arguably not really a web browser, but possibly the first (and pre-RSS!) "read it later" app: Plucker for Palm OS was amazing. You could enqueue websites to do
by lxgr 4mo ago
Arguably not really a web browser, but possibly the first (and pre-RSS!) "read it later" app: Plucker for Palm OS was amazing.
You could enqueue websites to download and compress from a PC during each HotSync operation and then read them offline on the PDA.
- phreeza 4mo agoWas just going to ask if anyone remembered the name of this one. It was amazing! 15 year old me felt very important/futuristic syncing the news before school in the morning and reading during school break! Edit: after looking it up with plucker as a starting point I think the one I actually used was AvantGo, same idea though I think.
- tarasglek 4mo agoI worked on a real estate app. We added mobile support by generating a static website from the database, including listing previews and stuff. Realtors were amazed that they could have the entire database that looked like a full website. That was fully offline. Plucker made it possible