On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 09:48 PM, keitai-l@appelsiini.net
wrote:
> As for any other software project, we reckon writing the code is 20-30%
> of the effort (that's not just markup, but back-end stuff too). .......
> <-snip->
> ....... My estimate: writing markup is 5-10% of the effort.
Thank you for this. What I am really trying to get at is not so much
the "typing in the code" element, but the overall impact on a largish
project of using wml rather than imode-html - which is a slightly
wider notion.
Is there none at all now ?
This isn't just a matter of writing markup, but also of how
consistently phones support that markup, how flexible it is, which has
implications for testing time and so on.
Obviously design / testing takes the most time - but before proper
tools existed, the fact that one could do basic testing in a browser
cut testing time quite dramatically. In the past, my guess is that one
could simply get code that displayed consistently out the door faster
using imode-html.
I guess with the widespread availability of proper tools, this is no
longer much of an issue.
Nick
Received on Thu Oct 9 04:00:20 2003