On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ken Chang wrote:
> (2) easy to write?
> yes, but the wireless part of major content providers cost less
> than 10% of over all operational cost. how much you can squeeze
> from that 5-10%? but WAP saves a lot over the wireless network,
> a way more precious resource.
Well, I'm talking WML more than WAP here. What exactly does it save
over cHTML?
> - XML, on which WML is base, will replace HTML.
Not in the very near future. The primary use of HTML is not markup,
but graphic design.
> it's easier to convert WML to C-HTML but EZweb now provides good
> service to access i-mode sites.
Good. And maybe even regular web sites. As phones get faster and
accept larger pages, using your phone to access "regular" network
data will be more and more practical, though it's never going to
replace your desktop.
cjs
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Received on Mon Jun 24 13:21:00 2002