Web browing for the mobile user
Off-line
- Travel Software's WebEx and First Floor's SmartBookmarks, Freeloader's
Freeloaderm and Open Market's OM-Express are all supporting off-line Web
browsing - form previously downloaded web pages which you have on your local
disk.
Caching and prefetching
During spring 1996 groups of students in my course on "Internetworking" implemented HTTP proxies which supported both caching and prefetching.
- even a simple strategy such as the first 5 and last 5 URLs per page
provides a considerable improvement
- for systems linked via a connection - you might as well keep the
connection busy as you are paying for it!
