No, technically, I-mode phones' compact NetFront browser parses HTML just like
Netscape and IE -- gracefully ignoring tags it doesn't understand and
displaying as much as posible, given memory constraints, etc.
If you look at the tag spec, cHTML includes most of the text tags, form tags,
and some extra stuff like hard rules, images, etc.
Doesn't include dynamic HTML, frames, or javascript.
Which means it's fairly trivial to scale down existing sites to work on I-Mode
-- usually a case of removing images and making sure page is less than 5k.
For EZWeb, the EZ gateway does some HTML -> WML translation for you.
r e n
Andrew Shuttleworth wrote:
> Ren wrote:
> > cHTML is just a subset of regular HTML. Unrecognized tags are
> > ignored, like
> > any other browser.
> > Pages over 5k error, but display as much as possible within the realm of
> > known tags.
>
> So technically, 8 million people in Japan DON'T have cell phones that read
> html just fine. That's the point I was trying to make in the original
> mail, although these pages fit within the cHTML restrictions. It's
> interesting that Sean managed to access the page with EZwhatever. How can
> this be explained? Does the code also fit within HDML restrictions? I
> noticed the opening <HTML> tag was missing from the code on these pages.
>
> > Works just fine.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew
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