- Can I use my Palm to browse the
web? Sure! There are several web browsers available for the
Palm. I will discuss two such web browsers which I have used successfully
on my Palm III and Palm V.
PalmScape
PalmScape is
a text-based browser (freeware) available from most Palm
archive sites. The plus to using a text-based web browser is its
speed; The negative is no graphics! Using such a browser is easy
and intuitive. Once you make a PPP
Internet connection using your Palm and
modem, you can start up PalmScape (Figure 1). Figure 2 shows PalmScape
loading up the Yahoo web page.
Figure 1
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Figure 2
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The icons in the lower portion of the Pilot screen allow for typical web browser functions (forward/backward page movement, bookmarks, reloading, etc). For further info, see the application's documentation.
ProxiWeb
ProxiWeb is
a graphical-based web browser which makes use of a Proxi Server.
By default, the application is setup to use two possible Proxi Server machines
for processing the graphical images. Figure 3 shows ProxiWeb's startup
screen.
Figure 3
ProxiWeb startup
screen
Similar to
PalmScape, icons are present in the lower portion of the screen for web
page navigation. Again, see the application's documentation for further
information.