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Bill Hallahan
01-12-2004, 04:10 PM
I wish to view a complex HTML document on my Palm Tungsten T3 that is running the latest version of iSilo (version 4.0). My desktop system is running Windows XP Professional with IE6 and all the Windows Updates as of a 2 weeks ago.

I have an HTML document on my hard drive. I can view it in Internet Explorer by entering the path to the file in the browser address bar.

I used the iSiloX converter that is launched from the Tools menu in my browser. If I set the properties of the converter to encode deep links (say 100) I still only get part of the document (I don't know how much, I expect it is only the first page since the file was only 6.5K and the document is several almost 2 megabytes of data. I know iSilo's compression isn't that good!) I didn't load the 6.5K file into my palm because I knew it was too small.

Note I can browse the file by clicking on links within Internet Explorer. Do I have to move this to a server (and run IIS) to encode it with iSiloX?

Please let me know if you need any more information.

iSilo
01-12-2004, 04:16 PM
iSiloX Clipper's default maximum link depth setting is zero so only the currently viewed page is converted and no links are followed. Have you tried increasing the "Follow links to a maximum depth of" setting?

Bill Hallahan
01-12-2004, 04:19 PM
Yes, I set the link depth to a large number, i.e. 100.

iSilo
01-12-2004, 04:24 PM
The files do not need to reside on a server.

Is the hyperlinking functionality of the document implemented with JavaScript? If so, then that would explain it since JavaScript is not supported.

Perhaps you could post the top-level file so we can look at the HTML source.

Bill Hallahan
01-12-2004, 04:31 PM
That's it. The top level page used Javascript to refer to a page below.
I can just go down one directory and there is little or no Javascript.

Thank you very much for your help.