On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:
> Remember, there is nothing wrong with WAP, as long as the charging regime
> you are using is accepted by your user base.
Now this is ironic. One of the reasons for WAP's failure is that,
unlike Docomo's cHTML, WAP is its own independent standard that isn't
interoperable at all with HTML.
So in Japan, the home of those terrible Meji-era folks who hate standards,
I can get a keitai that will let me quite happily read my own home
page, and I can test out my pages designed for keitai on a standard web
browser. If I buy one of these so-called "standard" WAP phones, I lose
both those abilities.
I've regularly cursed those those "s-t-u-p-i-d" "Meji-era" WAP folks
for deciding to come up with their own new and different standard...
cjs
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Received on Tue Jul 31 11:54:40 2001