News:
21.7.2003 - 13:22 (GMT+2)
Release 1.2 out. Special thanks to Cory Tunney for drawing my attention to the broken local.wml :)
23.12.2003 - 13:05 (GMT+2)
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml seems to be lagging behind the actual frontpage content. So don't blame me =)
23.12.2003 - 14:46 (GMT+2)
Actually, it seems that content is on time. The data just isn't exactly what I expected.
I thought the slashdot.xml would contain all frontpage headers with url's. In reality all
specific sections like yro, games, science and so on are omitted.
30.12.2003 - 11:05 (GMT+2)
Limited articles to show only last 5. With long headers, I ran into memory limits of
6310 if I show all the available topics.. Most likely, that would be the case with some
other 'old' wap phones too.
21.1.2004 - 12:19 (GMT+2)
Added two reported models which work (Thanks! You know who you are ;)).
Judging by the access.log, it appears to work for many models. The source will
be soon available. :)
17.2.2004 - 13:22 (GMT+2)
Source released now.
24.11.2004 - 14:16 (GMT+2)
Argh, I forgot to enable proper wap/wml headers after testing something. The
script has been broken for many phones for a looooong while. My apologies.
Please report if it still is broken for you.
I have browsed slashdot with my wap-enabled phones for quite some time. Googles html2wml-mangler does quite decent job. It's hard to browse subjects thou.
Slashdot kindly offers a neat xml-file describing the headlines, so I decided to create my own contraption on top of that. But headlines only does a little good...
After some research, I finally figured out a way to abuse googles wml parser for my needs. So, now I can say I can browse Slashdot quite conveniently.
Before you try to use this, please understand that this is for wap phones only. Don't try to access it using your web browser. The script will most likely give you some verbal abuse and even if you trick it to give you the concent, web browser most likely won't render correctly.
It seems that it works now on any wap phone. Sometimes it may go broken when slashdot formatting changes or the computer gnomes go on strike.
So, if it fails for you, please tell me what kind of error your phone gave and if you are
familiar with wap/wml, do tell me your analysis of the error.
My email adress is fizzl/at\fizzl_dot_net.
And thanks to everyone who kindly reported how it works on their phones. Helped a ton while polishing the script!
Now, without further stalling, point your wap phone to
http://slashdot.fizzl.net
Source:
sdwap-1.2.tar.gz
New stuff in 1.2:
Slashdot.org changed their formatting. Therefore, I needed to rewrite the regular expression which extracts the content of the
article. Also added 'The Dept' at the beginning of the article. Some changes to client detection too. Can't remember what I have
changed since last release, and too lazy to diff :P
New stuff in 1.1:
Using google for displaying articles is now only optional. By default the link uses a local
script which parses the slashdot article. Many thanks to Andrew Blyler
for mailing me the initial script! The articles are cached and slashdot server is only bugged when a user
reads an article for the first time.
Installation notes:
The script now needs a subdirectory called 'cache', which your web-servers user must have write and create permissions.
Previos notes on slashdot.xml apply.
Installation notes:
Your web-servers user must have write acces to the slashdot.xml file. If you also want it to automatically generate one
when it does not exist, it also has to have write access to its installation directory.
I can't recommend this.
If you happen to write more sane XML parser, I'd appreciate if you could mail the changes to me :)