Offline Browsing on a Mobile Device

According to this article there is a new web browser for the Palm OS that allows caching of web pages while browsing with your handheld (Palm Treo 650, 680, and 700 p).

The web browser is called Xiino from a company called Mobirus.

This is a nifty feature especially since the handhelds of today are providing more and more storage on board...especially with the addition of an SD card.

This will allow you to cache frequently used data from websites such as directions, movie times, etc without having to rely on having a data connection the next time you want to use them.

However, on the negative side there are some major bugs with the browser.

The author writes:
..."unfortunately, I quickly spotted some ugly bugs: it doesn’t seem to interpret UTF8 pages properly, it doesn’t support the application/xhtml+xml media type (!), doesn’t follow anchors marked with id="foo" (which I guess can be summarized as not supporting properly XHTML), and seems to have a pretty limited support for CSS as well."

But hopefully these issues will be fixed in the future.