LJ friends page on PDA - no dice

[pne]

I tried to create a custom friends view that would let my view my friends page on my PocketPC as an AvantGo custom channel, but no dice.

I created a style which was fairly minimalist (no userpics, very little markup, no tables, etc.) and it seemed to work out all right. I also had &checkcookies=true at the end of the URL (and it worked in the preview in my real web browser). I also tried to login from my PDA and got a result page (after the next sync) saying "Hello, pne". But still I didn't get friends-only entries when I viewed the page on my PDA.

Also, the links didn't seem to work properly -- I changed the links to include &usestyle=lynx for a "lighter" format, and that worked, too, on my browser, but not in the PDA. So it tried to display the left-hand navbar and indented entries and userpics and all sorts of stuff I didn't want.

After a couple of tries I just gave up and removed my custom channel again. Pity; it would have been nifty.

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

Do you still have the style that you created?

I imagine it's the style I called 'pne-friends-avantgo' (http://www.livejournal.com/styles/browse/styleinfo.bml?styleid=211187).

I just marked it public so you can have a look at it if you wish.

Here's how it looks like applied to your journal (http://www.livejournal.com/customview.cgi?styleid=211187&user=spatulistic&checkcookies=true&nooverride=1).

[spatulistic.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh. This is EXACTLY what I am looking for. Thank you SOOO much! I just viewed it on my PDA and it works perfectly. It even views protected entries which were a big concern.

Could I continue to view my friends page via that url you gave me, or should I adapt the style myself?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Could I continue to view my friends page via that url you gave me, or should I adapt the style myself?

I'm not planning on modifying that style any time soon, but to be on the safe side, you should probably create a style of your own and copy the code from my style into it.

Email or IM me if you need help: email is my username at livejournal.com, IM is on my userbio page. (You're most likely to catch me on AIM, though you could try the others.)