(keitai-l) Re: i-mode in the UK

Well, DoCoMo announced it would launch i-Mode in Seattle, Washington (USA)
in June of this year.  The fine print said it would be a WAP product.  So in
this case they will simply extend the brand name, but not the technology.

Beau Buck
CEO, Co-founder
Modezilla
www.modezilla.com




----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wallace" <paul.wallace@adcore.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Cc: <lmcgurdy@agency.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:48 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: i-mode in the UK


> Laura,
>
> Can't confirm or deny the availability of i-mode in Europe this month,
> but there are a couple of inaccuracies in the Anywhereyougo article --
> so I wouldn't put too much faith in the claim.
>
> A couple of things I noticed in this article:
>
> 1. As was firmly pointed out to me by folks at both Access and DoCoMo,
> the markup language of i-mode is not cHTML, it is "i-mode compatible
> HTML". If you look at the elements and attributes list of the two, there
> are many additions in i-mode.
>
> 2. JPEG exclusion is not because of HTML, but because of the browser or
> the hardware. I would expect JPG and PNG support in i-mode's future.
>
> 3. Tables are not mentioned in the i-mode list of tags on DoCoMo's site,
> but the N503i (and maybe others, I didn't look) has a menu option to
> turn table support off (the default is "on") -- don't know why someone
> would turn it off...
>
> 4. Background color (bgcolor) IS supported in i-mode HTML, text and link
> also (in English: http://www.nttdocomo.com/i/tag/body2.html).
>
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura McGurdy [mailto:lmcgurdy@agency.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:40 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) i-mode in the UK
>
>
> Anywhereyougo claim that i-mode is going to be launched in the UK by the
> end
> of this month (http://www.ayg.com/imode/Article.po?id=776284). Can
> anyone
> confirm this or point me to any URLs confirming this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --laura
>
>
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