Small gift for my blog visitors
Whenever I want to track stock price (especially closing price) when I’m out for meeting, I’ll just surf www.sgx.com using my O2 mobile, but there are some disadvantage.
a) It loads a lot of graphics and other data which I don’t want, so it slow down the loading and increase my GPRS charge as more data is downloaded.
b) The whole thing just don’t fit my screen.
So I decided to write a simple crawler that will get information from sgx.com then reformat it to suit my phone’s form factor. I tried to minimise the data that need to be loaded by reducing html tags, use style sheet for formatting, etc. Ultimately to give a better surfing experience for me, ie, faster speed, less cost, fit into my screen.
If any of you interested to try, type this url into your phone if you have a built in browser :
http://www.qoolventure.com/sgstock.php
If you have any suggestion, do tell me also.
PS: I won’t responsible for the accurary of the displayed data, use at your own risk.
