On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Eijkemans, Paul wrote:
> >Hmm, who is saying that i-mode in Europe has to have the same
> >applications running as in Japan? When DoCoMo launched i-mode in Japan,
> >they tried to imagine what consumers *here on this market* would like to
> >use. European operators (in coop with DoCoMo) could now do the same
> >thing -- just for the European market.
>
> Why not do the following: take everything usable non-technical stuff from
> the i-mode concept.Transfer that to Europe. Use it with the WAP standard.
> Tadaaa!
>
And I wonder why European aren't doing that.
Hey, Mr. Eijkemans, why don't you start it? That would be putting
your hands on what your mouth is. Right?
> >For programming in i-mode, a lot of the basic information is available
> >in English already, plus it shouldn't be that problem to translate the
> >remaining parts. Developing content for i-mode has been proven to be a
> >lot easier then for WAP in many ways, so programmers in Europe should
> >actually have it easier to switch to i-mode, especially if they already
> >have experience with web development.
>
> It is indeed easier to program in cHTML than it is to program in WML. But
> the difference is marginal, especially for experienced programmers which
> will be the programmers that deliver quality service (as opposed to the
> home-site creators that probably use standard packages anyway). However,
> most programming effort will NOT be in programming the presentation layer
> but the business logic layer itself. Don't fall in the DoCoMo trap that I
> have heard on several conferences now: the easyness of programming cHTML to
> WML is exaggerated.
>
> Paul
I completely agree with you. Why don't you start doing WML as I have
suggested? I am sure you are very fluent at it.
Hubert
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Received on Thu Apr 5 04:28:25 2001