Re: [Fofredux-devel] error on install

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

On 3/5/07, Evan Roth <eva...@gm...> wrote:
> but it was good to get this one fixed, since 5.1.1 was stuck in a xampp
> release for a long time, so it could have caused a bunch of problems for
> users.

I'll update the RC package.

> i'm going to take a stab at doing a pda viewer then...
>
> here's my plan...even if this stuff only pans out for my own personal use
> (and i'm not giving any time estimate, since i'm stuck developing 50+ hrs a
> week at work)...
> 1 item viewed at a time...with a few commands on the bottom:
> Mark Read & Next
> Skip to Next
> Skip to First

You may be able to just have a CSS change for Mobile and choose to
view 1 item at a time in an add'l preferences. Would be worth trying
as a first stab.

I think I would personally also prefer an option to see 5 titles at a
time and select to view specific items. But the 1/item at a time is
good start.

> i'll do an async fetch for the next item, so the "mark read & next" would
> actually replace the contents of a <p> and send a hit a web service to mark
> the item read, while prefetching the next item.  I think this should reduce
> the amount of wait for the reader, and allow us to send only the necessary
> data down to the device (the feed item)
> my only hurdle will probably be windows mobile 5.0's version of IE's
> handling of the ajax stuff.  even though all the sdk's at msdn claim that it
> should work.

don't target IE - someone can come back and fix it later :) target
Opera for mobiles or something for testing. More devices supported.

>
> what's the status on ajax libs?  i see we have prototype in the tree, but
> are we using it yet?  i may throw yahoo in there for my purposes, since i
> know it very very well, and don't want to waste energy learning something
> new.  although, prototype could be attractive if it's simple to do the async
> calls, since it's probably much lighter weight than the yahoo libs,
> especially when we don't need the ui extras yet.
>

I tossed prototype in there to start - and it's what I know. But
others suggested Yahoo as well, and may be a good fit. So if you start
using it, go ahead and put it in there for now, and maybe we can use
some of your stuff back in the full UI.

Andrew