if it doesn't become a core part of antville. But I disagree with you that mobile channels are a prorietary format. it's xml and it was submitted to the w3c. everybody can use it and write applications for it. O.K. its invented by Microsoft... and that's the main reason why nobody else supports this format.

By the way providing a simplified HTML view of a weblog can also be used by other palm offline readers, like AvantGo, or for surfing via a GPRS-Handy/Palm combination. So the cdf-xml file is just a hint file for IE to create a mobile channel.

Anyway I will post a working .zip extension for mobile channels in the next days. I already finished scripting, but it still needs some testing and zipping of course.

matthias, the changes i applied to the rss output are in the cvs, already. if you get the latest antville version from there you should see how the new version works.

It would be great if it is possible to view and especially post on antville-sites from a handheld running PalmOS. Though I´m not a programmer I´m not sure whether this will be possible with the stuff you´re talking about. If so, I´m really lóoking forward to it.

As far as I understood AvantGo there are two ways to get a channel. The provider registered the Channel at AvantGo and you can subscribe it from there Website, or you just tell AvantGo the StartURL and say how many links deep you want to crawl. And that would work with my addition.

I'm not parsing the content yet. So there are still non AvantGo Tags in the content (like tables, and so on). I don't know if the AvantGo Software is parsing the content itself, or the Website needs to be clean in advance.

posting from a PalmPC) PocketPC can POST/GET send forms. So I could provide a simplified post-page for that.

There are also blogging Solutions for AvantGo and Palm. But I'm not an expert for that...