(keitai-l) Re: Javascripting in Imode

From: Michael Turner <leap_at_gol.com>
Date: 04/18/01
Message-ID: <002501c0c7e4$5ba6c1a0$0961fea9@leap>
I ranted that
> >I actually kind of hope that phones will
> >never run Javascript, ....

Henry Minsky, opening a can of worms no doubt, responded:
> What about WMLScript?
> Seems like a horrible kludge to me, much like WML itself.

I have yet to meet anyone who's crazy about it.

> My opinion is that people should use an HTML browser that's built into
phones
> for this kind of thing, but the phones should support a little servlet
engine.
> That way, you could write small servlets that run in the phones, and use
> the phone's native browser. All they need is a tiny extension to the
phone's
> browsers to support at "localhost://" url which talks to the local JVM.

"Client-side servlets" == "client-stored applets", yes?

> The whole idea of WML "cards" is just a poor idea, I wish the WAP people
> would admit it,
> instead of adding an additional layer of badly designed software
> infrastructure.

But if it were good, it wouldn't, you now, *match*.  Consistency
is important in system design ;-)

-m
leap@gol.com



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