Re: is CC/PP worth using

Actually, I was just made aware that the WAP UAPROF spec, chapter 9, contains
just such a protocol. You will have to look it up, it looks really weird when I
try to copy and paste from Word. But it looks like it takes care of Marks
comments.

As for the future of CC/PP, I am of course biased. Yes, we will rule the world
and eat the cake, too. However, all legacy servers will never implement all new
technologies. That will never happen. So you can not expect total penetration.

As an aside, I am increasingly convinced about the value of the approach using a
default with overrides. Of course, you need a structure like CC/PP to keep stuff
in. But I participate in discussions in lots of other places, and the approach
keeps getting validated.

Concerning the vocabulary, the answer is "maybe". The attributes are there, and
things like screensize and colour are not specific to WAP. However, you would
have to look at it yourself to say whether it covered all your needs. I was just
in a teleconference with another group in our company, who is adding a set of
attributes in a namespace of their own in a standard they are producing (you may
find out when it is finished). So that is a viable option, but I agree with
Lalitha that you need the support of an organization for it to be accepted.

Hope that answers the question
Johan

Sandeep K Gain wrote:

> folks,
>   First a general background on what I am up to.
>
> I am developing a server that generates content according to the HTTP
> User-Agent header information.
> We have got our own browser sort of application running on Palm and
> WindowsCE based devices .
> The application running on these devices request content from my server and
> I generate content according to them . The content sent to them currently is
> XHTML.
> In future we wish our application gets content from all sites on the
> internet.
> Now we wish to get hardware/software/application specific information from
> the client and then generate the content according to that .
> so far , its fine .
>
> Now, if we implement CC/PP , we will be able to have our application
> runnning , as the server will understand the CC/PP information.
> My question is should we really use CC/PP , becoz if all that is to be done
> is just to pass this information, then we can pass this in our own protocol
> (which we have).
> Is CC/PP here to stay , i mean are we anticipating that most of the internet
> sites will gradually become CC/PP aware.
> Can CC/PP be implemented over HTTP without using the HTTPex framework?
> And is UAProf vocabulary sufficient , or is it just for WAP applications.I
> mean, I wish to use UAProf vocab for CC/PP from my Palm and WindowsCE based
> applications , can i do so?
>
> your insightful comments please
> regards,
> sandeep

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