(keitai-l) Re: Yahoo Go for Series 60

From: Joe Bowbeer <joe.bowbeer_at_gmail.com>
Date: 01/10/06
Message-ID: <31f2a7bd0601091844s618a8383w7b91589f90554b43@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/9/06, keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
<keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net> wrote:
> On Midp, it's possible to start the browser through platformRequest,
> but you can not start another application, even another Midlet.

In theory, platformRequest could be used for this purpose and Sprint
does support a richer set of URIs -- but elsewhere only http: (and
tel:) are supported.

The content handler API is intended to enable this in a standard way:

http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=211

Looks like Nokia is behind this, at least their latest Prototype SDK
supports it.

Joe.
Received on Tue Jan 10 04:44:27 2006