Sunrise, Freaky Friday Find

I've been using Plucker off and on for a while, and it's great. While the WristPDA is a little small for reading really long pages, it's great for those quickie blog entries from around the web. Sunrise seems a bit redundant (Plucker can handle RSS, which seems to be what many are using Sunrise for), but there are a few tricks it will do... For instance, there's a Mozilla extension that'll allow you to quickly send a page to Sunrise for later offloading to your PDA. In Plucker this takes several steps (unless I'm missing something). There is also some scripting support, from URI rewriting to dynamic document properties. Sunrise also uses Rhino as a scripting engine inside the SDL's you create. While you won't have full JavaScript functionality, it does provide some core objects. There is a handy walkthrough at MobileRead's forums. Unfortunately, the original docs are missing, though I found them through the magic of the Internet Archives. See the old FAQ here. One thing I learned: Sunrise was written by the same person who wrote JPluck, which makes sense, as Sunrise is a Java app and essentially JPluck 2). And supposedly Sunrise is intended to become a commercial app. It doesn't appear to exist yet though, but there's a tiny bit of info here, where author Laurens explains why the Palm OS is a dead end for Sunrise... So is anybody out there using this thing, or the commercial version?

Tags: freeware, rss