WM5 Smartphone Offline Browsing

[Guest montv]

I need an app / solution so that I can browse web pages offline. I like to sync news to read while I am on the tube.

Mobile favourites doesn't (seem to) work - it just tranfers the favourite link rather than the website. Before I got an SP5, i used to use sunnysoft world offline - but that is still stuck in WM2002 and doesnt work.

Any suggestions chaps?

Any developers see this as an opportunity?

Thanks !

[Guest mgama]

I need an app / solution so that I can browse web pages offline. I like to sync news to read while I am on the tube.

Mobile favourites doesn't (seem to) work - it just tranfers the favourite link rather than the website. Before I got an SP5, i used to use sunnysoft world offline - but that is still stuck in WM2002 and doesnt work.

Any suggestions chaps?

Any developers see this as an opportunity?

Thanks !

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One solution would be to use a desktop application to create a local copy of a website (with relative links), and then copy that to your phone for viewing. This has the benefit of being a lot quicker (DSL/Cable modem vs. GPRS speeds), and many free desktop applications already exist. So it could be just a matter of finding the right tool that does all the features you want, and then transferring the files to your phone before you leave.

http://www.httrack.com is one desktop application which I used in the past to create local copies of a site, and it worked well. It looks like there is a command line version of that tool too, which means you could automate it quite easily.

[Guest montv]

One solution would be to use a desktop application to create a local copy of a website (with relative links), and then copy that to your phone for viewing.  This has the benefit of being a lot quicker (DSL/Cable modem vs. GPRS speeds), and many free desktop applications already exist.  So it could be just a matter of finding the right tool that does all the features you want, and then transferring the files to your phone before you leave. 

http://www.httrack.com is one desktop application which I used in the past to create local copies of a site, and it worked well.  It looks like there is a command line version of that tool too, which means you could automate it quite easily.

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That is one way round it. The great thing about sunnysoft world offline was that there was no pc application required - it ran on the smartphone and sucked everything up via activesync internet passthru - imagine httrack running on a smartphone.

Now that I have wi-fi I was hoping that there was a solution that would not require a pc app in the middle. ie. when i get up in the morning i would like to avoid a half hour routine of booting up my pc, running httrack and copying files.

Maybe I should just buy a newspaper!

[Guest montv]

Any other suggestions?

[Guest pndragon]

nope sorry man.. mgama pretty much explained what I had to find out for myself. I run MetaProduct's Offline Explorer Ent. Ed. as a startup app that is minimized on launch, then each site is scheduled to be downloaded on its own schedule. I then use Rubber Stamped Data Sync to sync the files from my desktop to my smartphone. With 6 news sites archived each day, its a lot of files so it takes a bit of time to sync. It just runs in the background but it takes forever.

Right now, Rubber Stamped Data Sync takes about 15 minuts to sync it all. If the sites were all downloaded to single files (like mht files or something) then im sure the sync would take no more than a minute. but because there is over 2200 files to be synced each day, it takes a bit of time.

Hope that helped.