Can someone try this url with Pocket IE?

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doesn't even work with Mozilla/Firefox ;-)

Uses extensive java which will be the primary issue preventing you from
accessing it directly... then the final image is so far right that the
refresh and scroll demands would drive you away in short order.

What some of us do is gather the url's of the cameras that relate to our
commute and build a simple local html file that brings up the final
images directly.

Achieving this depends on several factors, the most important being how
the image is named... if the name for the most recent image is static,
it's simple and effective. You can also generate a "reload statement"
for urls such as the one below to achieve a "video effect"

On this site, was able to drill down and find the final image url, but,
parts of the url would indicate to me that the address might "die" after
a timeout period or be related to having visited a signin page.

http://cam02.trafficland.com/traff [...] 9783224057

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

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I just tried it for you. I have an HP Ipaq 5555 with Jeod installed. I
clicked on Washington DC and a map came up. I selected (at random) S.
Capitol and M Street. A picture popped right up. I then selected
Pennsylvania Ave SE and 8th Street S. A different picture popped up. A
still frame picture of the traffic comes up on the screen to the right of
the map. I suspect you could do as well or better with the HP 6315 phone.

Good luck!


"Fr@nk" <fr@apaNOSP@AMwizard.net> wrote in message
news:3MZ6e.9760$d43.6317@lakeread03...
> Hello. I'm thinking about getting a Pocket PC device (currently have a
> Palm)
> that has builtin WiFi (802.11b). I'd like to use it in the mornings before
> I
> leave for work and check a local traffic camera website. But it's a
> relatively complex looking site, and I'm not sure the Pocket PC can handle
> it. The site is www.trafficland.com. If someone could go to this site with
> their PPC device (using Pocket IE of course), navigate to any of the local
> traffic cameras (Washington DC, Maryland or Virginia), and post back here
> with the results (saw the live traffic videos fine...or....the device
> couldn't handle the video....or....etc.), I'd really appreciate it. I just
> basically want to know if a PPC device is usable for this purpose. Thanks.
>
>
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"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
message news:eXaEBO8PFHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> to actually answer your question, you can access traffic cameras using
> wifi or a cellular data connection and they display fine on the ppc, but
> you will need to add a bit of work.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Beverly-

Your idea to create a simpler html file (with embedded links to the camera
image(s) I want) is a good one--thank you. I did it on my notebook machine,
and have the page only display the two camera images I'm looking for. Very
simple html file (with a meta refresh), so I have to believe an ipaq can do
it (--oh, does PIE do meta refresh?).

Thanks also for drilling down and getting the underlying link info for the
camera photos. It's true the entire url you posted MAY by dynamic, so I kept
trying the url with as little as possible (reading from the left) until the
camera pic loaded. It looks like the url "fragment" I'm using is pretty
static; it worked yesterday and this afternoon.

One last question (for those who viewed this site in its entirety): did you
try viewing the site in landscape mode? The ipaq I'm looking at supposedly
lets you rotate the screen view. It seems to me that viewing some sites in
landscape would make them appear more like they would on a desktop.
Thoughts?


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