(keitai-l) Re: Common wireless markup language?

I think it basically means:

* DoCoMo will continue as planned migrating to xHTML
* J-Phone and KDDI has finally admitted that attempting to fight i-mode is
pointless, so they've conceded and decided to follow the defacto standard, too.

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Paul Wallace wrote:

> 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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