A constructive Palm VII question
Wow! It's actually possible to write a constructive, polite letter of request and email it to a publication! My faith in humanity is restored. --DA

You have such a great publication for those of us who use our PalmPilots. But now that the Palm VII is out, when will you have a version of PalmPower that works on the Palm VII and PQAs?

Can't wait,
Deng Biao

David Gewirtz responds
When we originally set out to produce online publications and started building our Editorial Production System technology, the magic that generates everything you see for all our publications, there really wasn't a good way to download data to handhelds. Now, with the Palm VII and AvantGo, there are two excellent alternatives.

Right now, we're still a bit time constrained. After launching a new journal, it takes a while to come up for air and start new projects. I had figured that doing an AvantGo version of our publications was a low priority--until I looked at our browser stats. Something above 20% of our readership reads PalmPower (with no special download version or formatting) with AvantGo! So a download version is now a higher priority.

I'm expecting we'll extend the Editorial Production System so it'll automatically generate an AvantGo channel instead of a Palm VII version, at least at first. AvantGo runs on more platforms, and that means one round of development is usable across publications. However, early investigation is leading me to believe that once we generate simplified content for AvantGo, extending that to a PQA-format wouldn't be all that tough.

I frankly can't give you a timeframe, but a handheld version of some kind is now definitely on the list.