- From: Butler, Mark <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:57:06 -0000
- To: www-di@w3.org
Hi folks, I agree that the it is better to have content that is accessible on most devices, rather than styling for particular devices where possible. Why make a problem complex when you can make it simple? However even if you have a good XHTML mobile browser, standards like CC/PP are still potential useful. For example: - mobile data costs are still quite high. So use CC/PP either at the server or at an intelligent proxy to reduce image sizes (the user can't see them in as much detail on a mobile device anyway) to save the user money and time. - if you are downloading media objects (ringtones, audio, images, software etc) have a single way of checking the device has the required capabilities to use the object - often the user is paying so this is important! - there are overlaps between CC/PP and HTTP content negotiation. However CC/PP has the advantage that data is sent by reference, which allows the client to send more information while using less bandwidth. In my view, the current version of CC/PP is more complicated than it needs to be. But having a single, widely used standard for capability negotiation would be an excellent idea as its such a pervasive problem - see [1] for more discussion about this. [1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2002/HPL-2002-173.pdf kind regards, Mark Butler Research Scientist HP Labs Bristol http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut
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