Mika Tuupola wrote:
> This should work in the way that when the first page
> loads the phone allready renders it to your handsets
> display and the continues to download rest of the deck
> in the background.
Which is nice if you're paying for your connection by the minute, which
is the way WAP billing was meant to work, but exceedingly annoying if
you're paying for it by the byte, which is what i-mode does and what
most WAP operators are probably looking at right now.
> I say "should" because I think most of the phones don't
> work this way, but they wait for the whole deck to download
> before they display even the first page. Thus forcing you
> to wait for the whole deck to download before even showing
> you the first page.
And needless to say this is incredibly stupid on both counts...
Cheers,
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Received on Thu Apr 19 04:59:50 2001