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Apr 12, 2005

Xiino Palm Browser Update

A new version of the PalmOS web browser Xiino was released last week, and it is a very nice update. Xiino 3.4 improves page rendering by adding support for colored, sized, and emphasized text, as well as including a new 'image preview' option that allows downloads of low-res gray-scale placeholder images. This is a really nice addition to Xiino's already bandwidth-friendly image loading feature set.

Most importantly for Zodiac, Clie UX-50, and Tungsten users, however, is support for landscape mode. Finally!

This update makes Xiino, in my opinion, the best PalmOS browser available.

However, is everything perfect? No. Sadly, landscape mode in Xiino 3.4 does not seem to play well with one of my essential Palm apps, Fonts4OS5. When I use fonts smaller than the default '22 point' Palm font, Xiino's landscape display cuts off lines of text in paragraphs that are longer than 3 or 4 lines. This does not occur in the default display mode, so I can only guess this is a glitch with the new landscape support. This is a very disappointing, but not so much as to prevent me from recommending this otherwise excellent browser.

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