At 11:03 2001-01-18 +0900, you wrote:
>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.
It's an overall convergence on several frontiers at the same time, which of
course is essentially good. XHTML-Basic is part of the modularization of
XHTML, although done a little bit from the side, emerging from cHTML.
XHTML-Basic will then be the base for WAP-NG which is to be specified this
summer. This work is to a large extent done by or at least according to
Kamada-san's way of thinking (he is the the CTO of Access).
What seems to have happened, at least partly, is that some of the Japanese
operators and vendors have understood that it would be better the faster
they could emerge to this new standard, even before WAP-NG will be
specified and available for implementation by vendors. This is something we
would hope that vendors in Europe would understand also... But there is too
much prestige involved, and they also seem quite slow to learn (huge
understatement).
The question mark in this scene is openwave/phone.com. They have
participated this time in a fairly positive way in W3c, but will probably
experience technical problems moving from HDML and WML-lookalike o
XHTML-Basic. They are also together with Nokia, those who stresses the
backward compatibibility for WML in WAP-NG (which is more complicated than
it seems with different network architectures and limited memory availability).
So it's no secret that several of the other Japanese operators are lookig
for alternatives to phone.com...
It seems, by the way, that Access browser for 503i already can handle
XHTML-Basic completely, although they have only guaranteed this for the 3G
handsets, FOMA.
So the advice to everyone is to stop making silly WML, MML, HDML solutions.
It's already history. Dead man walking...
/gustaf
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> Common wireless markup language?
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>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:
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> 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.
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>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?
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>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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