(keitai-l) Re: Handheld devices classification and browser compatibility (PDA, PPC, Smartphones, etc.)

From: Darren Luckett <darren_at_ukmedia.us>
Date: 03/01/05
Message-ID: <42248351.9060003@ukmedia.us>
Curt Sampson wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Nicolas Combelles wrote:
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>>2) My target : Connected-colour-handheld-html-devices
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>>-> Which handset category should I target ? And how to name this category
>>when communicating about it ?
>>...
>>-> Which client-side language should I choose (for the same reason) ? I
>>think xHTML MP + wCSS would be the best choice.
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>I think a lot of it really depends on your application. For some
>applications, more fancy stuff is not a better user interface, it's just
>chrome. For others, it can make or break the application.
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>I'm not sure what "MP" is above, but XHTML Basic has extremely broad
>compatability as far as I can tell.
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mobile profile. increased support for css.

> I use only that for all the major
>carriers in Japan, changing only the emoji. Europe seems to be moving
>that way, too. I personally find that WML/WAP/whatever is not worth the
>pain and expense.
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>However, I don't think that the smaller browsers support CSS.
>Javascript, at least in Japan, is right out. A limited version of Flash
>is available on some newer Docomo phones, but it doesn't seem good for
>much beyond chrome--in other words, I've never seen a Flash application
>on a docomo phone that couldn't be done pretty much as well in XHTML.
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javascript is being released in the next openwave browser

>cjs
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Received on Tue Mar 1 16:07:27 2005