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This site is no longer maintained.
My current weblog.
Tuesday, March 26, 2002To quote myself, the lack of drivers for desirable peripherals is one reason that the Zaurus isn't ready for prime-time:
Presently, low-power WiFi cards from Socket and Symbol are unsupported. [...]
Turns out that this is a big deal for non-US buyers. WiFi cards from Socket and Symbol have regulatory approval for the EU and elsewhere. SMC's card does not. That leaves buyers with the worst available WiFi options: cards from D-Link and Linksys that drain batteries faster than the SMC card (which is horrible enough), with bulky antenna designs to boot!
Supposedly, Socket has finally assigned a developer to the task of porting the Linux drivers to the Zaurus. I can hardly wait to see results...
I'm going to throw in the towel on using client-side script to display the ideal stylesheet, the "FOUC" is annoying the heck out of me and has the potential of messing up anchors. CSS-capable browsers on PDAs are the only scenario where dynamic stylesheet selection makes much sense for me, a three-column layout on a tiny LCD is wasteful.
Once I'm self-hosting again, I'll solve the problem with ASP and browscap.
Made the switch at 10am. Dropped the DOCTYPE from my templates too. No "FOUC", nearly pixel-perfect rendering in IE5/Win, IE6/Win, Opera 6/Win, and Mozilla 0.9.9/Win. Sweet.
Sharp's Linux PDA debuts in US
Sharp this week put on sale its Linux-based Zaurus handheld computer and included one unexpected feature: a $50 price cut. [via IDG InfoWorld]
San Diego based Media Metastasis LLC has quietly announced their plans to bring QuickTime video formats to your PDA. [...] The most interesting aspect of this system is that they are currently using a Handspring Visor Prism and Sharp Zaurus to demonstrate it. [via PDABuzz.com]
