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10-21-2006, 01:13 PM
Well, dreams do come true. Sort of.
I noticed over at PalmAddicts that there is now a TABBED browser available called Minuet available at PalmGear. See here: http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&catid=0&area=software.newupdated&searchtitle=Search%20Results&searchterm=&step=1&orderby=modificationdate&direction=asc&userid=0&prodid=126634
I reinstalled the JavaVM (after uninstalling it because of the disappointing browsing experience from Opera Mini) and, after a little difficulty, installed Minuet (I think you're supposed to install the Minuet prc, which I did, but for some reason it would display "Searching for Cookies" or something like that and then exited every time. So I used the WebSphere JavaVM to install the jad like the Minuet User Guide shows -- using the first link http://www.triprince.com/minuetpda.jad -- and it worked, launching it from the WebSphere environment OR from the main launcher. For some reason the original prc didn't like me enough to work, but did when I installed the .jad file.).
Well, I can truly say it IS tabbed (multiple pages can download in the background while opening or viewing another page), and the tabbed part actually worked quite well (although images took a while to download). Unfortunately though, many pages just wouldn't be displayed. Without even making an effort to download the pages, Minuet would simply say it couldn't connect (This happened with 1src and TamsPalm -- didn't do an extensive test). Simpler pages downloaded nicely, although it is so reformatted that it looks like crap (and the images look TERRIBLE, whether viewed in their native size or not).
It reminds me of an Opera-like browsing experience, only worse. Also, sometimes tapping (or double-tapping I guess) didn't work and I had to use the 5-way nav select button to launch pages. Also, JavaScript is absent from this release. And for some reason I could minimize the DIA for a while and the program would resize perfectly, but after a while it just maximized again and wouldn't go down.
All-in-all, I would say this is a step in the right direction because of tabbed browsing. However, I am probably going to uninstall this program in an hour or so because to me it is unuseable (as was Opera). Maybe other browsers that actually render pages well could use this implementation of tabbed browsing as an example -- then we might finally have a good browser.
Happy browsing!
I noticed over at PalmAddicts that there is now a TABBED browser available called Minuet available at PalmGear. See here: http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&catid=0&area=software.newupdated&searchtitle=Search%20Results&searchterm=&step=1&orderby=modificationdate&direction=asc&userid=0&prodid=126634
I reinstalled the JavaVM (after uninstalling it because of the disappointing browsing experience from Opera Mini) and, after a little difficulty, installed Minuet (I think you're supposed to install the Minuet prc, which I did, but for some reason it would display "Searching for Cookies" or something like that and then exited every time. So I used the WebSphere JavaVM to install the jad like the Minuet User Guide shows -- using the first link http://www.triprince.com/minuetpda.jad -- and it worked, launching it from the WebSphere environment OR from the main launcher. For some reason the original prc didn't like me enough to work, but did when I installed the .jad file.).
Well, I can truly say it IS tabbed (multiple pages can download in the background while opening or viewing another page), and the tabbed part actually worked quite well (although images took a while to download). Unfortunately though, many pages just wouldn't be displayed. Without even making an effort to download the pages, Minuet would simply say it couldn't connect (This happened with 1src and TamsPalm -- didn't do an extensive test). Simpler pages downloaded nicely, although it is so reformatted that it looks like crap (and the images look TERRIBLE, whether viewed in their native size or not).
It reminds me of an Opera-like browsing experience, only worse. Also, sometimes tapping (or double-tapping I guess) didn't work and I had to use the 5-way nav select button to launch pages. Also, JavaScript is absent from this release. And for some reason I could minimize the DIA for a while and the program would resize perfectly, but after a while it just maximized again and wouldn't go down.
All-in-all, I would say this is a step in the right direction because of tabbed browsing. However, I am probably going to uninstall this program in an hour or so because to me it is unuseable (as was Opera). Maybe other browsers that actually render pages well could use this implementation of tabbed browsing as an example -- then we might finally have a good browser.
Happy browsing!