(keitai-l) merge of i-mode and wap?

Hi,

here is another article mentioning a possible merge between wap 
and i-mode escpecially in terms of the markup language (wml/chtml) 
and a joint move towards xhtml (the article mentions xtml but 
I think they mean xhtml)...

Developer worries see WAP turning Japanese
http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=963194064&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=38488&REQSTR1=newsnow
(URL might break!)

I had a quick look on the w3c page and found a working draft 
describing "XHTML Basic" (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/), 
which is a subset of XHTML 1.1 and is supposed to be:

"a minimal set of modules required to be an XHTML Family 
document type (...) It is designed for Web clients that 
do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, 
Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop 
boxes."

authors of the draft:

Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C 
Shinichi Matsui, Panasonic 
Peter Stark, Phone.com 
Toshihiko Yamakami, Access Co., Ltd.

Looks like its (hopefully) still moving into that "one 
standard" direction... 

I wonder what J-Phone is going to do with MML if i-mode and 
wap both go for xhtml...

CU,
Andrea
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