(keitai-l) Re: New member/i-mode stumbles?

From: Mika Tuupola <tuupola_at_appelsiini.net>
Date: 08/16/00
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10008161123410.2084-100000@aurinko.taivas.com>
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Bruce Kirk wrote:

> The WAP Forum is working on a specification to make WAP and the
> Japanese i-mode data formats interoperable. The aim of the specification
> is to open a new market for WAP services in Japan.
> 
> The WAP 2 specification, which will enable users of WAP phones to view
> i-Mode sites, will be available in April 2001.

	This is quite interesting since WAP Forums CEO Scott Goldman
	recently said:

	"A hybrid approach will only be reached if iMode is moving
	towards an XML world. WML, the core markup language of WAP, is
	built on a platform of XML - Compact HTML (cHTML) is not. As
	the Internet world continues its inexorable march towards XML,
	only those technologies that are built on that platform will
	continue to move forward. WAP will not incorporate cHTML for that
	very reason."

	So basically he said WAP and i-mode wont work together unless
	i-mode changes its markup language.

	Whole article can be found at:

		http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12372.html 


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Mika Tuupola                      http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Wed Aug 16 11:36:51 2000