AvantSlash
AvantSlash allows you to read Slashdot on a Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry, Smartphone, or Palm based device (either online using a Web browser or offline using an application such as AvantGo), or from an older WAP enabled mobile phone. It provides you with a cleaner version of the content, and can even clean up the linked articles for easier reading on your device.
| Licenses | GPL |
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| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Perl |
| Translations | English (United Kingdom) |
Recent releases
- 13 Jun 2009 00:09
Changes: The code was updated to support the HTML changes made by Slashdot, which prevented comments being shown. In addition, HTML tags will no longer be seen in page titles.
- 26 Apr 2009 23:23
Changes: The code was updated to take into account the changes to the HTML on Slashdot's main page. In addition, the documentation was updated to reflect the fact that the output can also be viewed on an iPhone.
- 04 Apr 2008 15:03
Changes: A bug was fixed which meant that users were directed to a non-working Google page when viewing on a basic WML only enabled browser. The code was also updated to support the HTML changes made by Slashdot to the comments page.
- 28 Oct 2007 13:42
Changes: The code was updated to support the HTML changes made by Slashdot, which prevented comments being shown.
- 09 Oct 2007 13:53
Changes: A number of bugs were fixed relating to a small number of stories not being shown on the front page and the viewing of pages through Google's HTML to WML proxy. A new feature was added that allows the reader to change the comment threshold from the browser without editing the configuration settings.
- All comments
Recent commentsMakes /. over GPRS painless
I've used AvantSlash for a couple months now from my Treo 650 and it makes surfing /. fun again. Even with a /. login and your preferences set to "light," you won't get nearly the performance or readability that you do using this .cgi.
Below are the lengths of wgets on the /. home page (index.html) standard, same page with prefs set at "light" (index.pl.html), and via avantify.
Thank you Mr. Lawrence.
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 apopp apopp 49466 Jun 15 12:19 index.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apopp apopp 37441 Jun 15 12:24 index.pl.html
rw-rw-r-- 1 apopp apopp 14075 Jun 15 12:23 avantify.cgi