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Note that you can not currently use Top Gun Wingman to download Top Gun Wingman, unfortunately.

Current version: 1.5 beta (1997/11/18)

Top Gun Wingman has been improved and commercialized in the form of ProxiNet, Inc.'s new Pilot web browser, ProxiWeb. Check it out!

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Note: As of version 1.5 beta, Top Gun Wingman is distributed as ReciprocityWare. This means that although we give away the program for free, we ask that wou reciprocate.

If you are a developer, we ask that you send free registered copies of your programs to the authors of Top Gun Wingman. If you are not a developer, we ask that you send us something you think we'd like.

Questions, comments, and contributions should be sent to:

Top Gun Group
c/o Ian Goldberg
Computer Science Division
Soda Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
94720-1776

Email: <topgun@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>

About Top Gun Wingman

Wingman is a graphical WWW browser (with support for the HTTP, FTP, and gopher protocols) for the Palm Pilot(tm). It supports 2-bit-per-pixel graphics, a large (and growing) subset of HTML 3, and a user-controllable hotlist and offline browsing cache. Security and HTML forms will be supported soon, although some "forms" functionality is available through the use of aggregators.

Wingman achieves good performance through the aggressive use of a proxy architecture: parsing, layout and image conversion are done at a proxy server running on a workstation cluster, and a simple representation of the output is "spoon fed" to the browser client.

The same proxy server runs the TranSend service at UC Berkeley.

Screenshots of Top Gun Wingman are available on a separate page.

Requirements for Wingman

US Robotics Palm Pilot Professional with a minimum of 50KB memory free
A modem or other networking device attached to the Pilot
(a HotSync cradle and the standard Pilot Desktop software will not work)
Network and Modem configuration correctly set up on the Pilot
(i.e. you can already establish a PPP connection)

Credits

Brought to you by the GloMop and ISAAC research groups at UC Berkeley.

GloMop:
- Armando Fox
- Steve Gribble
- Anthony Polito
- David C. Lee
ISAAC:
- Ian Goldberg

Back to the ISAAC Group's Pilot page.

Release History

Version 1.5 beta (1997/11/18)
- Storage and hotlist and hotlist pages can now be named
- New Hotlist pages can be added by hand
- Server-side image maps are now supported
- Page source can be downloaded as an AportisDoc file
- The browser recognizes Image Viewer files
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Version 1.0 beta3 (1997/10/29)
- Databases and applications can now be downloaded to the Pilot
- Large images can be viewed (Dilbert!)
- Horizontal scrolling works
- Scroll bars added
- Scroll by dragging
Version 1.0 beta2 (1997/10/21)
- Alarms/Find Button now compatible with 2-bit mode
- Aggregators now selectable via popup
- Fixed memory problem with page storage system
- link URL now displayed for image links
Version 1.0 beta1 (1997/10/07)
- Initial beta release

Bugs & Unsupported Features

Client Side Bugs

64 / Scroll Location Lost while navigating across pages
66 / after a timeout disconnect, no reconnection alert
75 / incorrect link highlight on multiline links

Server Side Bugs

34 / Currently truncates pages to about 30k
53 / All items in HTML form displayed on screen
48, 67, 68, 71 / Several web pages have bad layouts
70 / Problems with HTTP "acceptable" header with some servers
74 / HR tag not processed

Unsupported Features (Stuff we are working on)

Client-Side Imagemaps
Anchor Tags
Forms
Security

Other Bugs / Issues

Some programs, like Teal Echo, try to write directly to screen memory instead of using PalmOS calls. These programs tend to get confused when Wingman puts the display into 2-bit mode.

If you have a new bug report or comment(s) about Top Gun Wingman, please...

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updated 19971118 IG