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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:17:51 +0900
From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol@eurotechnology.com>
To: Tom Worthington <tom.worthington@tomw.net.au>
CC: Juha Vierinen <jvierine@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi>, www-mobile@w3.org, www-tv@w3.org, fasol@eurotechnology.com
Subject: Re: Server Side Magic.
Tom, I agree with what you are saying...
There is a very simple test: look at the website with an imode
phone. If you see something reasonable displayed, the site is
accessible to about 30 million mobile internet users today:)
and ready for today's wireless internet.
You can then add sophistication as the wireless internet develops,
e.g. JAVA applets etc.
Just my 2 cents...
Gerhard Fasol
http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/
Tom Worthington wrote:
>
> At 07:21 18/06/01 +0300, Juha Vierinen wrote:
> >We are planning to test CC/PP ... The server has to do some magic, to come
> >up with a page which fits the client... Is there any standardized language
> >for describing a such a site?
>
> You might want to look at Cocoon, a "100% pure Java publishing framework
> that relies on new W3C technologies (such as DOM, XML, and XSL) to provide
> web content": http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/
>
> However, I am a skeptical of the value of this technology for public web
> pages. After discussions of accessibility and mobile Internet at INET2001
> <http://www.tomw.net.au/2001/inet/index.html#Serving>, I am recommending
> that web designers make their applications "wireless ready" by implementing
> accessibility guidelines and checking their web pages are usable on a
> quarter-VGA screen. Most web pages will then work okay on wireless PDA
> devices and web appliances, as well as normal computer screens. This avoids
> the need for server side software and bypasses WAP.
>
> Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington@tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
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