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| Subject: | Re: Wireless Dev: Re: JSP/WML |
| Date: |
06/15/2000 07:06:11 AM |
| From: |
Emil Friis |
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Actually at CNN, where I used to work, we decided to go the opposite way. We
used to have short stories formatted for SMS on our WAP service, but it just
seemed an excessive limitation to the media. Instead we decided to put most
of the categories from the website on the phone. So what CNN is using now is
a menu with the headlines for the particular section (max 9 stories)
formatted so they would scroll - not wrap.
Then on the first page there is only the headline (wrapping this time) and
the first 2 paragraphs and a link to "MORE". It is a journalistic tradition
that the 2 first paragraphs should more or less sum up the story, so if you
were still interested you can continue to read the full story. This seemed
to work pretty well for us, but I would love some comments on this format -
especially from someone who has used the service (even though you shouldn't
expect any changes though - since I don't work there any more :-) ).
Unfortunately you can only access CNN Mobile if your carrier licenses the
content from CNN (a business model doomed quickly to be more extinct than
the dinosaurs in my opinion)
Emil Friis
Wireless Applications Consultant
Emil.Friis@Air2Web.com
250 14th Street, NW
Suite 4001
Atlanta, GA 30318
ph: 404 872 6735
fax: 404 873 1253
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Hill" <completemadness@compuserve.com>
To: "Bryan Morgan" <bryan@wirelessdevnet.com>: "HARSH" <dearharsh@yahoo.com>
Cc: <wirelesslist@wirelessdevnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 7:22 PM
Subject: RE: Wireless Dev: Re: JSP/WML
> Bryan,
>
> Here in Australia you can get the CNET online news daily over WAP. They
are
> supplying just the headline and first paragraph. It seems to work quite
> well.
>
> Warren.
>
> ==============================
> Warren Hill
> Strategic Business Director
> Edify Corporation
> Level 50, 101 Collins Street,
> Melbourne 3000
> Australia
>
> Tel:+61 3 9653 9149
> Fax:+61 3 9653 9407
> Mobile:+61 4 0835 5039
> Email:warren.hill@edify.com
>
> WWW: www.edify.com
> WAP: wap.edify.com/wap.wml
> ===========================
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> wirelesslist-return-41-completemadness=compuserve.com@wirelessdevnet.com
> [mailto:wirelesslist-return-41-completemadness=compuserve.com@wirelessde
> vnet.com]On Behalf Of Bryan Morgan
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 2:43 AM
> To: HARSH
> Cc: wirelesslist@wirelessdevnet.com
> Subject: Wireless Dev: Re: JSP/WML
>
>
>
> There is a bit of code on our site using asp and wml. Check out
> http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/training/WAP for the WML/WMLScript tutorials
> and the article on using XML for content management. Basically, the trick
> doesn't involve the actual scripting language...it's how the back-end
> content is stored. In other words, to "spit out" WML is easy using the
> usual print output calls to HTTP. What's difficult is:
>
> (a) taking unstructured content (i.e. HTML) and organizing it for the
> highly-structured WML
> (b) taking database content and doing the same
> (c) designing your content for small displays and breaking larger
documents
> into cards.
>
> We just rolled out our WAP news yesterday at
http://news.wirelessdevnet.com.
> Unfortunately, the news items are lengthy and, frankly, I think looking at
> them on a small WAP screen sucks!
>
> Does anyone have any opinions on how we should proceed? I've thought of
> maybe only offering the headline and a sentence or two but didn't want to
> remove valuable information.
>
> Bryan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: HARSH <dearharsh@YAHOO.COM>
> To: Bryan Morgan <bryan@wirelessdevnet.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 11:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Wireless Dev: Introduction
>
>
> > hello,
> > Can i get url or material where there is use of
> > jsp with wml ? (or asp with wml. ?).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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