Re: Review WAP 2.0 Arch.

I can tell you have not read the WAP 2 spec, which:
* Uses HTTP
* Uses XHTML
* Uses CC/PP
* Uses CSS
Backward compatibility with legacy WAP 1 technology *IS* by the use of gateways
and special servers.

Do read it, it is interesting.

Johan

Tom Worthington wrote:

> At 11:12  10/04/01 +0900, Kazuhiro Kitagawa wrote:
> >... Are there any person who are interested in reviewing the WAP specs ? ...
>
> Given the lack of take-up of the current version, it may not be worth
> working on WAP 2. Instead the effort could be put into using accepted
> Internet and web standards for mobile devices.
>
> A politically palatable way to do this might be to abandon WAP 2 and create
> WAP 3 as a set of profiles of web and Internet standards for mobile devices
> (MPEG similarly went from 2 to 4, skipping 3).
>
> WAP 3 would avoid features which would be difficult to implement on mobile
> devices, but not introduce any new technology. As an example WML would be
> abandoned and XHTML used, exploiting accessibility features to work on
> mobile devices. Backward compatibility with legacy WAP 1 technology would
> be by the use of gateways and special servers.
>
> This may seem a radical step, but some years ago I was working for the
> Australian Department of Defence on the implementation of GOSIP (Government
> Open System Interconnection Profile). This was a set of ISO standards
> intended to do officially what the Internet did unofficially. After many
> years work we abandoned GOSIP and decided just to use IP, as it worked
> better. WAP similarly may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but it
> is time to get on a do something more useful.
>
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