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| Subject: | Re: Wireless Dev: Jakob Nielsen on WAP |
| Date: |
07/26/2000 12:01:27 PM |
| From: |
Ryan Fife |
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The thing that really bothers me about all this bad press around WAP is that
they are only talking about WML and WMLScript - when really WAP is much bigger
than that. The limited screen sizes and display capabilities are limitations
of the device, not the protocol. WAP is built to to deal with the
low bandwidth, high latency nature of wireless networks. Also, there is no
provision for soft-key mapping and such in HTML so you would have to write
different HTML either way.
I really liken it to seeing lynx and calling TCP/IP and HTTP a failure because
it isn't exciting enough. This misses the whole e-mail, instant messaging
options - not to mention the graphically rich web as we know it today.
Don't get me wrong, I think that some major corporations are slowing
advancement of the standard until their device capabilities catch up - therefore
ensuring that the competition can't jump ahead of them in the marketplace.
I use my "WAP" phone daily and am often frustrated by the limitations, but
I also know that we are moving forward and will eventually have a solution
that is compelling to not only developers, but the general consumer as well.
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 02:59:42PM -0400, Keith Alexander wrote:
> High standards? Heh. If we designed
> pages according to his "standards",
> they'd all look the same. Boring.
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> He has many good points. And many bad.
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> KA
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> --
> K e i t h A l e x a n d e r
> manager | wireless/mobile tech
> 2 1 2 . 8 2 7 . 2 5 6 8
> www.atmosphere.net
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> -- end of transmission --
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Giles Bowkett
> > I have to disagree: I think he just has really high standards.
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Ryan Fife
fife@AnywhereYouGo.com
Creators of the world's first online WAP testing tool:
http://www.AnywhereYouGo.com/Content.po?name=lab/About
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