- From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol@eurotechnology.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 14:27:20 +0900
- To: www-mobile@w3.org
- Cc: fasol@eurotechnology.com
> Are there www sites or gateways which display 'compact > HTML' versions of large numbers of pages so that they > can be seen _as a DoCoMo i-mode handset user would see > them_ ? > > Perhaps a cHTML simulator ? > > Many thanks, Mark Griffith, Budapest Mark: Quick answer: no, but... Here is a more detailed answer: (a) you can get a rough idea of cHTML pages by looking at them with any Japanese language enabled web browser. Try looking at our pages as a test: http://www.eurotechnology.com/i/index.html (b) when using a Japanese enabled webbrowser, you need to keep in mind that DoCoMo uses a range of special symbols (for example for Japanese hot spring baths) etc which are encoded and will not display properly even on a Japanese enabled browser (on my browser these special symbols just appear as a "?" question mark). Since you can achieve special effects by combining these special characters, you can't make site design without understanding them. (c) at the moment 99.99% of the users are Japanese people, and 97% of them do not speak English. Therefore even if such a site/gateway would exist you would still need to learn to read Japanese which takes anything from 1 - 10 years unless you are from China or another Chinese-character country (d) there are one or two (japanese language) simulators around (e) there are many different models of DoCoMo imode handsets, with quite different specs. Some are b/w only, some are color, screen sizes differ, in autumn JAVA-enabled handsets will be introduced etc. Some accept animated gifs, some don't etc. You'd need to keep this in mind. (f) you can find more information about imode here: http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/ Hope this helps, Gerhard Fasol Eurotechnology Japan K. K. http://www.eurotechnology.com/
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