From: Evan R. <eva...@gm...> - 2007-03-07 02:09:02
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On 3/6/07, Andrew Turner <ajt...@hi...> wrote: > > > 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. well, we could push something to the options, if the whole attempt becomes worthwhile. it will really vary on what the user is actually reading. some of the blog entries i pull down can get pretty long. > 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. IE is what i have to test, since my device (Samsung Blackjack) is win mobile 5.0. it does a reasonable job browsing most sites. kind of cross between pda and mobile. /evan |