Posted by Greg N. on 02/07/06 22:21

Barbara de Zoete wrote:

> I very much dislike to see someone using those applications on my site.
> Downloading over a hundred pages and all that comes with them in a
> short time, for what?

I think there are reasonable applications for this type of thing. One
that I heard about is something like "off-line mobile internet" (I
forget the correct term).

Here is how it works. You define a list of pet URLs, either explicitly
or in wildcard fashion. You connect to the web over night, and it sucks
in and buffers all the new and _changed_ pages on these sites. When you
leave home in the morning, your laptop contains the latest version of
everything you need for you to surf off-line.

Sounds like a reasonable app to me. I'd be flattered if somebody chose
my site to be among his mobile pet site list.

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