>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Lauren Baptist wrote:
>
>> However, (and please forgive my skepticism) could we really come up with a
>> standard that others in the community would follow?
>
>Actually - in rereading everyone's responses, I'm even more
>skeptical! Some are seriously opposed to the idea, and I have to say that
>I agree that it doesn't seem quite right for a third party to spearhead a
>standard.
>
>Nonetheless, a standard (e.g., meta tag) would be ideal... (for more
>than just search engines, right...?)
>
Could you work out something that uses robots.txt for developers to tell
your bot that there are i-mode compatible pages on the site and where they
are? This could solve the problem of people who specifically want their
site indexed by Google without having to stick pseudo-standard meta-tags in
their pages.
For the more general case, I assume that what you're trying to find are not
so much "i-mode pages" (which seems impossible to define), but pages that
can be viewed nicely on an i-mode device, no? If that's the case wouldn't
it be easier to determine that a page is NOT i-mode compatible? So if a
page is over x Kb, has Javascript, jpeg images, anti-NTT slogans, etc, then
it can't possibly be an i-mode page. Otherwise, whether it was specifically
designed for i-mode or not, it will probably show up OK on a phone, so
let's call it an i-mode page. And if a bunch of pages like this are found
together, it's probably a whole site designed for i-mode. etc, etc.
Just a thought...
Dave
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Received on Fri Feb 9 11:15:54 2001