(keitai-l) Common wireless markup language?

Regarding the brief statement on NEonline, "Japan's three cell phone
operators to adopt common language for content description"
(http://ne.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/2001/01/0115w3c_embedded.html). It states:

  To be unified are NTT DoCoMo's "Compact Hyper Text Markup 
  Language (C-HTML)" for the i-Mode service, J-Phone's "Mobile 
  Markup Language (MML)" and KDDI's "Wireless Markup Language 
  (WML)." The unified language will be standardized during 2001.

Does anyone on this list believe that this unified markup language will be
standardized within the next 12 months? Is it something different than XHTML
Basic, or modularized XHTML? How would XHTML be compatible with WML?

What are the implications for this on content providers who would have to
convert existing content to this new XHTML/XML? Or the handsets that are on
the market now, which would not (likely) be compatible with this new markup
language?

My understanding is that in the future some kind of Modularization of XHTML
will be adopted for both desktop and wireless (including i-mode). But it
will have to be a slow rollout over sufficient time to allow content
providers to rework their applications and hardware to. I am interested to
hear opinions about this from the others on this list.

Paul


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 Common wireless markup language?



Regarding the brief statement on NEonline, "Japan's three cell phone
operators to adopt common language for content description"
(http://ne.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/2001/01/0115w3c_embedded.html[1]). It
states: 

  To be unified are NTT DoCoMo's "Compact Hyper Text Markup 
  Language (C-HTML)" for the i-Mode service, J-Phone's "Mobile 
  Markup Language (MML)" and KDDI's "Wireless Markup Language 
  (WML)." The unified language will be standardized during 2001. 

Does anyone on this list believe that this unified markup language will be
standardized within the next 12 months? Is it something different than XHTML
Basic, or modularized XHTML? How would XHTML be compatible with WML? 

What are the implications for this on content providers who would have to
convert existing content to this new XHTML/XML? Or the handsets that are on
the market now, which would not (likely) be compatible with this new markup
language? 

My understanding is that in the future some kind of Modularization of XHTML
will be adopted for both desktop and wireless (including i-mode). But it
willhave to be a slow rollout over sufficient time to allow content
providersto rework their applications and hardware to. I am interested to
hear opinions about this from the others on this list. 

Paul 

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