(keitai-l) Re: Common wireless markup language?

From: karl thomsen <sevilnatas1_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 01/18/01
Message-ID: <F184VGeSJIEoPXCFbN4000006f8@hotmail.com>
Seems to me I've heard of this common wireless markup language before. Oh 
yes, it was called WML. Arnn't the yanks using something like that.(Sorry 
just finished watching WWII movie from the britishperspective)

k.


>From: Paul Wallace <paul.wallace@spike.ne.jp>
>Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>To: "'keitai-l@appelsiini.net'" <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
>Subject: (keitai-l) Common wireless markup language?
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:03:29 +0900
>
>Regarding the brief statement on NEonline, "Japan's three cell phone
>operators to adopt common language for content description"
>(http://ne.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/2001/01/0115w3c_embedded.html). It 
>states:
>
>   To be unified are NTT DoCoMo's "Compact Hyper Text Markup
>   Language (C-HTML)" for the i-Mode service, J-Phone's "Mobile
>   Markup Language (MML)" and KDDI's "Wireless Markup Language
>   (WML)." The unified language will be standardized during 2001.
>
>Does anyone on this list believe that this unified markup language will be
>standardized within the next 12 months? Is it something different than 
>XHTML
>Basic, or modularized XHTML? How would XHTML be compatible with WML?
>
>What are the implications for this on content providers who would have to
>convert existing content to this new XHTML/XML? Or the handsets that are on
>the market now, which would not (likely) be compatible with this new markup
>language?
>
>My understanding is that in the future some kind of Modularization of XHTML
>will be adopted for both desktop and wireless (including i-mode). But it
>will have to be a slow rollout over sufficient time to allow content
>providers to rework their applications and hardware to. I am interested to
>hear opinions about this from the others on this list.
>
>Paul
>
>
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>Regarding the brief statement on NEonline, "Japan's three cell phone
>operators to adopt common language for content description"
>(http://ne.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/2001/01/0115w3c_embedded.html[1]). It
>states:
>
>   To be unified are NTT DoCoMo's "Compact Hyper Text Markup
>   Language (C-HTML)" for the i-Mode service, J-Phone's "Mobile
>   Markup Language (MML)" and KDDI's "Wireless Markup Language
>   (WML)." The unified language will be standardized during 2001.
>
>Does anyone on this list believe that this unified markup language will be
>standardized within the next 12 months? Is it something different than 
>XHTML
>Basic, or modularized XHTML? How would XHTML be compatible with WML?
>
>What are the implications for this on content providers who would have to
>convert existing content to this new XHTML/XML? Or the handsets that are on
>the market now, which would not (likely) be compatible with this new markup
>language?
>
>My understanding is that in the future some kind of Modularization of XHTML
>will be adopted for both desktop and wireless (including i-mode). But it
>willhave to be a slow rollout over sufficient time to allow content
>providersto rework their applications and hardware to. I am interested to
>hear opinions about this from the others on this list.
>
>Paul
>
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