Offline Browsing - Memory Issue

[Guest meddleuk]

Offline Browsing - Memory Issue I have recently converted my Movie/Games/Music Database into html format and transferred it to my HTC Touch. I placed everything in the one directory, this includes various index.html's which are essentially just a text page index with hyperlinks to other html pages in the same directory. I click on one and it loads up a seperate html page for each film/game etc... The html files also have linked jpg with the film cover.

Now it all works fine with Internet Explorer although it is painfully slow considering that there is not one html page in the directory which is larger than 70KB and I load only 1 page at a time. I had done a small test before undertaking this with an index and 50 or so pages and this was quite quick, but there are now in excess of 6000 individual files in the directory including jpgs and html pages.

Could the amount of files in one directory slow down the browsing process? I had tried Piscal Browser and Mobireader but neither of them could open any of the html files sometimes hanging or complaining of out of memory. I have hidden the html files in the directory using resco explorer and only have the index files on view to try and speed the process up but there is no difference.

Is there a better browser I could use or that you recomend - only for this type of offline browsing. Or am I going about it all the wrong way.

Any help appreciated!

[Guest Menneisyys]

Yes, you shouldn't put thousands of files into the same directory.

Solutions:

1, you use subdirs - it'll result in a HUGE speedup

2, you use few HTML files and internal anchors

3, you use alternative browsing methods; for example, searchable MobiPocket data files (they too have internal links)

MobiPocket is, essentially, compresed, simple HTML in one file, with very fast searching capabilities, images and internal anchors. Very good for stuff like lexicons

I've written several tools to handle these documents; see for example http://www.winmobiletech.com/mwc . (warning: LOOOONG)